Sabine Hombach-Klonisch received her Ph.D. in Pathophysiology from the Justus Liebig University Giessen in 1994. In 2000, She became an Assistant Professor at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She was awarded the Merck European Thyroid von Basedow Research Prize from the German Endocrine Society in 2002. In 2003, She received her professional distinction as Anatomist by the German Anatomical Society and the Medical Association of Saxony-Anhalt. She completed her Habilitation in Tumor Biology in 2004 at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Since 2004 she has been working at the University of Manitoba, and now she is a Professor at the Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science. Her professional engagement continues to be in anatomy teaching and cancer research for which she received the Murray L. Barr Young Investigator Award by the Canadian Association for Anatomy, Neurobiology and Cell Biology in 2009. Her current research investigates molecular mechanisms utilized by heterogeneous cancer cell populations to facilitate invasion and metastasis and to promote cancer cell survival under chemotherapy or radiation.