Research Fellowships

NIH Training Grant

Diverse scientific research training

The faculty of the Department of Dermatology trains future leaders of academic dermatology in a program which has been carefully integrated with strong investigators in other departments. Our department provides an environment which facilitates the training of research dermatologists: sixteen of the nineteen full time faculty members maintain active laboratory research programs, and the other three direct creative clinical research programs. Each trainee has two primary advisors: one inside and one outside the Dermatology Department, and research is performed in the laboratory of one of these advisors.

For the past three years, the scientific collaborations between the dermatology and non-dermatology faculties interested in cutaneous biology have been further enhanced by theYale Skin Disease Research Center (YSDRC). The non-dermatology Yale advisors for this training grant proposal have been selected because of their regular interaction with the YSDRC or fellows supported by this grant.

Program Completion

Of the twelve post-doctoral fellows who have completed their training during the current period, nine have continued active research, five as faculty members in dermatology departments, one in basic science department and four in training programs. They have published extensively, and four have won national awards for their research accomplishments. Training will continue to be offered at several levels in the biological and clinical aspects of benign and malignant pigment cells, of keratinocyte growth and differentiation, of microvasculature structure and wound healing, in the study of malignant human T lymphocytes, in basic molecular and cellular immunology and in photochemistry.

Current trainees on training grant

• Keith Choate, MD, PhD
• Oscar Colegio, MD, PhD
• Elaine Gilmore, MD, PhD
• Lisan Peng, MD
• Brian Poligone, MD, PhD
• Juan Vasquez, MD

Dermatology Faculty on training grant

• Carole Berger, PhD
• Jean Bolognia, MD
• Irwin M. Braverman, MD
• Richard L. Edelson, MD
• Michael Girardi, MD
• Ruth Halaban, PhD
• David Leffell, MD
• Leonard Milstone, MD
• John Pawelek, PhD
• Pauline Schwartz, PhD
• Robert E. Tigelaar, MD

Mentors and collaborators on training grant

• Allen E. Bale, MD, Director DNA Diagnostics
• Douglas E. Brash, PhD, Associate Professor, Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Richard Bucala, MD, Professor Rheumatology, Pathology
• Peter Cresswell, PhD, Professor Immunobiology
• Daniel C. DiMaio, MD, PhD, Professor Genetics
• Francine Foss, MD, Professor Oncology
• Peter M. Glazer, MD, PhD, Asst. Professor, Therapeutic Radiology
• Adrian C. Hayday, PhD, Assoc. Professor Biology
• Jordan S. Pober, MD, PhD, Director Molecular Cardiology Program
• Mark J. Shlomchik, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Immunobiology
• John Sedivy, PhD, Associate Professor MBB
• William Sessa, MD, Professor Pharmacology
• Joan A. Steitz, PhD, Professor of MBB
• Stephen G. Waxman, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Neurology
• Sherman M. Weissman, MD, Sterling Professor, Genetics & Medicine