Mary Cynthia (Cindy) Farach-Carson is an American biochemist, known for her work in extracellular matrix, perlecan, tissue engineering and bone metastasis.
She is a professor of diagnostic and biomedical sciences and director of clinical and translational research at the school of dentistry at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,[1] and an adjunct professor of biosciences and of bioengineering at Rice University.
She served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
[4] She serves as senior scientist and on the steering committee of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, at Rice University.
[9] In 2021, she was given the Stephen M. Krane Award[10] by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.