State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture (TL)

Thomas Leung, MD/PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Personalized Medicine for Dermatologic Diseases

Dr. Leung is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia VA. He went to college at Stanford University and received his MD/PhD from the joint UCLA-Caltech MSTP program. As a graduate student with David Baltimore, he studied how the transcription factor, NF-kB, regulates gene activation. For his dermatology residency and postdoctoral fellowship, he returned to Stanford and trained with Seung Kim to learn developmental biology. His own group investigates how organs respond to injury and inflammation. They aim to heal injured skin without a scar and to develop novel clinical tests and treatments for personalized medicine. Their group has expertise in immunology, genomics, skin biology, and wound healing. Dr. Leung is funded by the NIH, Department of Veterans Affairs, Dermatology Foundation, and other private foundations. He has won numerous awards, including election into ASCI and the Young Investigator award from the American Academy of Dermatology.

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