title: An unconventional route to becoming a cell biologist.
abstract: I am honored to be the E. B. Wilson Award recipient for 2015. As we know, it was E. B. Wilson who popularized the concept of a "stem cell" in his book The Cell in Development and Inheritance (1896, London: Macmillan & Co.). Given that stem cell research is my field and that E. B. Wilson is so revered within the cell biology community, I am a bit humbled by how long it took me to truly grasp his vision and imaginative thinking. I appreciate it deeply now, and on this meaningful occasion, I will sketch my rather circuitous road to cell biology.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065 fuchslb@rockefeller.edu.
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fuchs
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002321:Career Choice; D002322:Career Mobility; D003585:Cell Biology; D006801:Humans; D057905:Stem Cell Research; D013234:Stem Cells