Profiles in Achievement
It takes perseverance and funding for scientists to produce innovative research that ultimately improves patients’ lives and advances the dermatology specialty.
The Dean of Black Dermatology
Against the backdrop of severe and persistent racism, including his family’s move to New Jersey in 1922 to escape threats from the Ku Klux Klan, Dr. John A. Kenney Jr. embarked on a journey that ultimately led his residents, mentees, and peers to honor him with the title, the Dean of Black Dermatology (Tuller 2003)….
Dr. Donald A. Glass II Receives the 2024 DF Sanofi and Regeneron Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mid-Career Award
Donald A. Glass II, MD, PhD, has received the first 2024 DF Sanofi and Regeneron Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mid-Career Award (SRDEI) from the Dermatology Foundation (DF). The award funds research of exceptional mid-career investigators and comes with funding of $100,000 each year for three years to support basic, clinical, or translational research that leads…
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…
Dr. Junko Takeshita Receives First BMS Psoriasis Research Award
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Replacing Opinions With Facts
The creation of the MAC allowed Dr. Heidi T. Jacobe to plunge into a research program of extensive breadth and depth that has steadily replaced opinions with facts and profoundly improved patient care.
Making the Link
The Sun Pharma Research Award allows Dr. Johann E. Gudjonsson to take preliminary data indicating a fundamental mechanism in autoimmunity, and pursue this in depth in his SLE mouse model and in human SLE subjects.
Probing Skin’s Microbiome
The Sun Pharma Research Award provides Dr. Tiffany Scharschmidt with the focus and freedom to address clinically translational aspects of her research in pediatric atopic dermatitis.