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List of Research Grant & Award Recipients (1996 - Present)

American Skin Association provides support to research investigators in four critical areas of study — melanoma & skin cancer, psoriasis & inflammatory diseases, vitiligo & pigment cell disorders and childhood skin diseases. The following is a list of grantees including the focus of their research.

Skin Cancer & Melanoma

Rhoda Alani, MD
Jack Arbiser, MD, PhD
Cheryl Armstrong, MD
Michelle Aszterbaum, MD
Boris Bastian, MD
Emily Bernstein, PhD
Sabina Bis
Neil Box, PhD
Heather Brandling-Bennett, MD
Douglas Brash, PhD
Suephy Chen, MD
Andy Chien, MD, PhD
Lynda Chin, MD
Joehyuk Choi, MD, PhD
David Chu, MD, PhD
Wallace Clark, Jr., MD
George Cotsarelis, MD
Christine Curry
Meaghan E. Daly
Amena DeLuca
Liang Deng, MD, PhD
Brijal Desai
Yevgeniya Dvorkin
Tatiana Efimova, PhD
David Elder, MD
Ervin Epstein, Jr., MD
Clemens Esche, MD
Jeremy Fenton
Spiro Getsios, PhD
Mark Blaine Geyer
Michael Girardi, MD
James Grichnik, MD, PhD
Matthew Goldberg
Heidi Goodarzi, MD
Sandra Han, MD
Rizwan Haq, MD, PhD
Yu-Ying He, PhD
Meenhard Herlyn, DVM
James Howell, MD
Colin Jamora, PhD
Ana Luisa Kadekaro, PhD
Jenny Kim, MD, PhD
Robert Kirsner, MD, PhD
Alfred Kopf, MD
Maranke Koster, PhD
Andrew Kowalczyk, PhD
Kenneth Kraemer, MD
Deborah Lang, PhD
David Lee
Danielle Levine
Jie Li, MD, PhD
William Lin
Helen Liu
Roger Lo, MD, PhD
Robin Marks, MD
Laura McGirt, MD
Ezra D. Mirvish
Megan Moore, MD
Karla Munoz
Frank Nestle, MD
Bernice Ng
Laura Novak
David O'Riordan, PhD
Kathryn O'Reilly
David Owens, PhD
David Polsky, MD, PhD
Neelu Puri, PhD
Kavitha Reddy
Andrey Sharov, MD, PhD
Elana Shpall
Katherine Simon
Grace Sun
Jean Tang, MD, PhD
Whitney Tolpinrud
Sergey Troyanovsky, PhD
Kenneth Tsai, MD, PhD
Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD
Suraj Venna, MD
Jeanette Waller
Christy Williams, MD
Benjamin Yu, PhD
Stuart Yuspa, MD

Psoriasis, Autoimmune & Inflammatory Skin Diseases

Milan Anadkat, MD
Grant Anhalt, MD, FAAD
Jonathan Barker, MD
Paul Bergstresser, MD
Ernest Beutner, PhD
Andrew Blauvelt, MD
Ann Bowcock, PhD
Robert Briggaman, MD
Thomas Burnham, MD, FAAD
Enno Christophers, MD
Kevin Cooper, MD
Liang Deng, MD, PhD
Luis Diaz, MD, FAAD
James Elder, MD, PhD
William Epstein, MD, FAAD
Andrew Engelhard, PhD
Eugene Farber, MD
Thomas Fitzpatrick, MD, PhD
Richard Gallo, MD, PhD
Joel Gelfand, MD
Alice Gottlieb, MD, PhD
Johann Gudjohnsson, MD, PhD
Jon Hanifin, MD
Michael Holick, MD, PhD
David Jones, MD, PhD
Robert Jordan, MD
Pratima Karnik, PhD
Kenneth Katz, MD, MSc
Stephen Katz, MD, PhD
Albert Kligman, MD, PhD
Knud Kragballe, MD
Gerald Krueger, MD, FAAD
James Krueger, MD, PhD
Wilson Liao, MD
Donald Leung, MD, PhD
Guanqun Li, MD
Robert Modlin, MD
Brian Nickoloff, MD, PhD
John Parrish, MD
Aimee Payne, MD, PhD
Gary Peck, MD
Brian Pollack, MD, PhD
Ye Qian, PhD
Andrey Sharov, MD, PhD
Animesh Sinha, MD, PhD
John Stanley, MD
Georg Stingl, MD
Jay Vary, Jr., MD, PhD
John Voorhees, MD, FRCP
Nicole Ward
Gerald Weinstein, MD
Deon Wolpowitz, MD, PhD
Jonathan Zippin, MD, PhD

Vitiligo & Pigment Cell Disorders

Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD
Vitali Alexeev, PhD
Jean-Claude Bystryn, MD
Mimi Cho, MD, PhD
Donna Durham-Pierre, PhD
Magdalena Eisinger, D.V.M.
David Fisher, MD, PhD
Ruth Halaban, PhD
Vincent Hearing, PhD
Herbert Honigsmann, MD
Richard King, MD, PhD
Delphine Lee, MD, PhD
Aaron Lerner, MD, PhD
Eve Lowenstein, MD, PhD
Jean Marie Naeyaert, MD, PhD
James Nordlund, MD
William Oetting, PhD
Seth Orlow, MD, PhD
Jean-Paul Ortonne, MD
Madhu Pathak, PhD
Glynis Scott, MD
Leslie Castelo-Soccio, MD, PhD
Richard Spritz, MD
Faith Strickland, PhD
Robert Tackey, PhD
Durga Udayakumar, PhD
Maria Wei, MD, PhD
Klaus Wolff, MD
Mina Yaar, MD

Childhood Skin Diseases & Disfigurement

Oleg Akilov, MD, PhD
Sarah Chamlin, MD
Angela Christiano, PhD
Beth Drolet, MD
Reza Ghohestani, MD, PhD
Jenny Kim, MD, PhD
Jennifer Lin, MD
My Mahoney, PhD
Susan Oliveria, ScD
Andrey Panteleyev, PhD
Katherine Puttgen, MD
Gabriele Richard, MD
Jane Yoo, MD