BME7900 Seminar: Maureen Lynch (Colorado)

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Maureen Lynch is an assistant professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Prof. Lynch’s research program focuses on the skeletal mechanical environment and its regulation of cancer. Specifically, she investigates 1) the skeleton’s mechanical environment and its regulation of the remodeling process, and 2) the role of osteoblastic cells, which comprise the principal sensor and effector cells of mechanical cues, in metastatic processes. Her long-term goal is to identify novel therapeutic targets for treating and preventing bone metastases as well as cancer-associated reductions in bone strength. Her experimental approach uses novel in vivo and in vitro mechanical loading model systems to correlate cellular function with cancer pathogenesis, tissue-level changes in tumor burden, and skeletal tissue strength.

She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering at Cornell University and her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Clemson University. Following her graduate studies, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell.