By on July 5, 2019 - 12:02pm
Finnish endocrinologist and educator Anna-Riitta Fuchs was renowned in the field of reproductive medicine. She worked as a scientist for the Population Council at Rockefeller University in the 1960s, where she discovered that the hormone oxytocin was blocked by the use of ethanol in rabbits. In 1971 she joined the faculty of Cornell University Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medicine) as an assistant professor in research. She continued researching premature labor with her husband, Dr. Fritz Fuchs, and rose to the level of professor in 1986.
Dr. Fuchs was active in the New York Academy of Science, Association for Women in Science, and the New York City Commission on the Status of Women. In 2003 she became the second woman to receive the Carl G. Hartman Award, the highest honor conferred by the Society for the Study of Reproduction.
Visit our lobby exhibit at 1300 York Avenue and learn more about Anna-Riitta Fuchs and four other pioneers in reproductive medicine. The exhibit will be opened until September 2019.
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