Skin Diseases Research Center Project Highlights

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PI

TITLE
CORE USAGE
OUTCOME

Elma Baron, M.D.

Dermatology

PC 4-PDT 

Translational

Dermatology Foundation Grant                             

Initiate Phase I/MOA clinical study

Morphology

Launched PDT for psoriasis

CORT PPG Funding, Project #1

 

Thomas Egelhoff, Ph.D.  

 Physiology & Biophysics

Myosin/Cytoskeletal

Cell Culture and Molecular Technology  

Initiated New Direction in Research
Mechanics of Keratinocyte

RO1 Funding

 

Migration and Wound Healing
Exp Cell Res. 2010 Apr 1;316(6):980-91

 

Paul MacDonald, Ph.D. 

Pharmacology

Novel target gene repression of the vitamin D endocrine system in skin and protection against skin tumorigenesis
Animal Experimentation & Wound Healing      
Initiated New Direction in Research

R21 Funding

 

Morphology
J Invest Dermatol. 2008 Oct;128(10):2508-17

 

David Askew, Ph.D.

Dermatology Pediatrics

Melanoma-mediated suppression & Innate Immunity and GVHD
Animal Experimentation & Wound Healing    

 

Initiated New Direction in Research

 

 

R03 Funding

 

Morphology

Invest Dermatol. 2007 Aug;127(8):1905-14

Ann-Marie Broome,Ph.D.         

Biomedical Engineering

TNF-alpha Regulation of S100A8 and S100A9 in Human Keratinocytes

Cell Culture and Molecular Technology  

KO1 Funding
Morphology

 

Radhika Atit, Ph.D. 

Biology

Role of Wnt signaling in craniofacial dermal development

Animal Experimentation & Wound Healing    

 

RO1 Funding   

 

 

 

 

Cell Culture and Molecular Technology  

Morphology
Development. 2008 Jul;135(13):2321-9

Pratima Karnik, Ph.D.   

Dermatology

Scarring Alopecia Phenotypes in PPAR gamma knockout animals

Translational  

 

 

Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation Funding

 

Cell Culture and Molecular Technology  

 

ASA Funding
Animal Experimentation & Wound Healing   
Dermatology Foundation Funding
R01 Funding

Alan Levine, Ph.D., Gastroenterology 

Aaron Weinberg, D.M.D., Ph.D.

Dental Medicine

ThomasMcCormick Ph.D. Dermatology

Identification and regulation of defensins in human mucosal tissue 

Cell Culture and Molecular Technology  

 

Initiated New Direction in Research

Launched Proteomics Approach

Morphology
NIDA PPG Funding Project #1

M.L. Nikki Harter, Ph.D.

Biochemistry

Epigenetic responses to solar UVR in melanocytes

Translational  

 

Initiated New Direction in Research

Morphology

 

R01 Application
Cell Culture and Molecular Technology  
Melanoma Foundation Application
Oral Presentation International Melanoma Meeting

Minh Lam, Ph.D.

Dermatology

Understanding the Early Events in the Fundamental Mechanisms of Pc 4-PDT Induced Apoptosis in a Murine Tumor Model
Translational  

 

Am Ca Soc-Ohio Division Award

 

 

Morphology

 

Clin Exp Dermatol, in press, 2010

Kurt Lu, M.D.

Dermatology

Macrophage-mediated pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory signals in wound healing

Animal Experimentation & Wound Healing 

Plenary Talk 2010 SID Meeting

NIH K12 Renewal

Morphology

 

RO1 application

 

Stephen Maricich, Ph.D., M.D.

Pediatrics

Analysis of Merkel cell function and genetic specification using deletion and ectopic expression of Atoh1 

Animal Experimentation & Wound Healing  

 

RO1 Funding

 

Morphology

 

Dev Biol. 2009 Dec 1;336(1):76-83

 

Man-Sun Sy, Ph.D.

Pathology

Prion in Human Melanoma

Cell Culture and Molecular Technology

 

Initiated New Direction in Research

 

RO Application

 

Translational

 

J Biol Chem. 2010 Sep 24;285(39): 30328-39