Calling all investigators, practitioners, and academics!
Dermatology Focus is published quarterly by the Dermatology Foundation. As a vital component of the Foundation’s educational program, the digital magazine communicates the latest developments in all aspects of the specialty and Foundation news.
Practitioners, academic and non-physician clinicians, residents, and anyone interested in dermatology will find something intriguing to read.
EDITORIAL
The Journey to Becoming an Independent Researcher
George Cotsarelis, MD, and John T. Seykora, MD, PhD
The interest in dermatology continues to gain importance in the house of medicine with the recognition that skin diseases will impact nearly everyone. Unfortunately the declining availability of federal grants for medical research discourages promising investigators and threatens our ability to make continual progress. That’s when the Dermatology Foundation can help.
The 1990s were a productive and robust era in biomedical research in the United States and around the world. The NIH budget had doubled by the end of that decade, with funding paylines reaching as high as the 20th percentile. Since then, NIH paylines have shrunk and the funding landscape looks bleak . . . Read More
FEATURE
From Bedside to Bench and Back Again
Dr. John Harris unlocks the potential of translational research in vitiligo therapy
Dr. John Harris unlocks the potential of translational research in vitiligo therapy. The turning point in the career of John Harris, MD, PhD, was sudden and an appealing type of serendipity. He had just completed his PhD studying type 1 diabetes in the lab of Dr. Aldo Rossini at UMass Chan Medical School, where he had become fascinated with autoimmunity. But he had grown frustrated that they couldn’t work directly with human tissues to study the disease.
“It was all mice, rats, and human cells in a dish,” Dr. Harris said. “I had always wanted to do translational research directly with humans. . . Read More
PROFILES IN ACHIEVEMENT
Dr. Marlys Fassett Receives the 2024 DF Bristol Myers Squibb Psoriasis Research Award
Marlys Fassett, MD, PhD, has received the 2024 DF Bristol Myers Squibb Psoriasis Research Award (BMSRA) from the Dermatology Foundation. Dr. Fassett is the second recipient of this prestigious award for extraordinary mid-career investigators. The award comes with $100,000 funding each year for three years to support her research into the role the cytokine IL-31 plays in pro-inflammatory diseases, including psoriasis. . . Read More
SNEAK PEAK AT THE NEXT ISSUE
In the upcoming issue of Dermatology Focus you'll be able to read a Science Feature on Dr. Michael Rosenblum and his work, Establishing an Immune-Cell Niche on Skin and so much more!
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