Congratulations PASH Summer Interns!
Eight PASH students from Philly area high schools completed internships in Penn and Jefferson Dermatology labs. For more information about PASH, the community outreach program of the SBDRC, click here.
Now accepting proposals for SBDRC Pilot & Feasibility Studies 2019-2020
Applications are due August 1, 2019. Information and instructions are available on the P&F website.
Save the Date for the 2019 SBDRC Symposium
The SBDRC Symposium will take place on October 4, 2019 and will feature keynote speaker / Kligman Lecture by Dr. Sarah Millar (Professor and Director of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai). Additional talks will highlight pilot & feasibility studies funded by the SBDRC. Registration and abstract submission …
Congratulations to 2018 SBDRC P&F Grant awardees!
Congratulations to our Pilot & Feasibility grant awardees! Full Grant Thomas Leung, Department of Dermatology: “Understanding the pathogenesis of neutrophilic dermatoses” Christoph Thaiss, Department of Microbiology: “Circadian regulation of skin inflammation by the microbiome” Minigrant for Investigator in Training Mackenzie Wehner, Department of Dermatology: “Actinic keratosis validation, incidence, and association with future skin cancers”
Deadline for SBDRC P&F grant submission extended to August 15, 1018
The Penn Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center (SBDRC) invites you to apply for pilot funding for research projects centered on cutaneous biology and/or disease. We have extended the due date until August 15, 2018; the anticipated start date for funding is October 15, 2018. Proposals should be submitted to Dr. Sarah Millar (millars@pennmedicine.upenn.edu). Further …
Pilot & Feasibility funding available
The deadline for submission of applications for SBDRC Pilot & Feasibility grants for 2018-19 is August 1, 2018. Please see the Pilot & Feasibility grant page for information on how to apply.
Young Investigator Award – Lindsay Kalan
(Elizabeth Grice, Lindsay Kalan, and collaborator Sue Gardner from University of Iowa pictured above) Congratulations to Lindsay Kalan for receiving the 2017 Young Investigator Award by the Wound Healing Society. Lindsay Kalan qualified by scoring in the top 8 abstracts submitted to the Wound Healing Society, and her presentation of “Shotgun metagenomics and chronic non-healing …
SBDRC Pilot and Feasibility Grant Awards
Congratulations to our 2017 Pilot & Feasibility grant awardees! 2017 Full Grant Thomas Leung, Department of Dermatology SDF1 control of tissue regeneration and fibrosis in mice and humans Pantelis Rompolas, Department of Dermatology Notch regulation of stem cell fate in skin homeostasis and tumorigenesis Jonathan Katz, Department of Medicine The role of KLF4 in UV-mediated …
Penn Receives $4 Million NIH Grant for New Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center
Funding Will Enable Expansion of Skin Research, More Rapid Translation into Patient Treatment PHILADELPHIA – The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Sarah E. Millar, PhD, the Albert M. Kligman Professor and Vice-Chair for Basic Research in the Department of Dermatology, and George Cotsarelis, …