ihueck@ucsd.edu

Institute Affliations:

Department of Bioengineering and Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of California San Diego; School of Medicine; Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego.

 Born in Germany, Isgard Hueck studied Biology at the Wilhelms University of Munster and received her license as Cyto-Pathologist in Cologne, Germany, in 1987. After many years of clinical work experience in hematology, cancer diagnosis and therapy, Isgard Hueck received a Master of Science degree in Bio-Medical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen, Germany, in conjunction with the University California, San Diego in 1998. Based on her extensive expertise in the areas of cellular engineering, cyto-histo-pathology and cancer research, Isgard Hueck is the key connection between interdisciplinary and international cooperation in bio-medical research. Her main interests are in the studies of cellular cancer diagnosis, angiogenesis in diabetes and cancer and stem cell research. She has published in scientific journals like Microcirculation, American Journal of Physiology, Cell Physiology and recently is working on a Springer Verlag Book chapter in Stem Cell Engineering.