2025 Symposium Speakers

In alphabetical order. Subject to change
 SpeakerTitleInstitution
Masayuki Amagai, M.D., Ph.D.Professor and Chair of Dermatology, Keio University

Director – RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences

Keio University
Niro Anandasabapathy, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor of DermatologyWeill Cornell Medicine
Anne Lynn Chang, M.D.Professor of Dermatology

 

Stanford University

 

Howard Y. Chang, M.D., Ph.D.Senior vice president, Global Research, and Chief Scientific OfficerAmgen
Y. Erin Chen, M.D., Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Biology and Core Member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Broad Institute

Attending Dermatologist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts General Hospital

Jaehyuk Choi, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of Dermatology, Director – Center for Cellular Therapies and Cancer ImmunologyUT-Southwestern
Christoph Ellebrecht, M.D.Assistant Professor of Dermatology

 

University of Pennsylvania

 

Michel Enamorado, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of DermatologyMount Sinai Medical Center
Luis Garza, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of DermatologyJohns Hopkins University
Michael Girardi, M.D.Evans Professor of DermatologyYale
William Greenleaf, Ph.D.Professor of GeneticsStanford University
John Harris, M.D., Ph.D.Professor and ChairUmass Chan Medical

 

Tamia Harris-Tryon, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor

 

UT Southwestern
Alain Hovnanian, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of Genetics, University of Paris

Laboratory Director, Institut Imagine, INSERM

University of Paris

Institut Imagine, INSERM

William Ju, M.D.Co-Founder, President, and TrusteeAdvancing Innovation in Dermatology
Derin Keskin, Ph.D.Principal ScientistDana Farber Cancer Institute

Harvard University

Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D.Professor and Vice-Chair of Faculty DevelopmentUniversity of Utah
Megan Levings, Ph.D.Professor, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering

Investigator and Lead – Childhood Diseases, BC Children’s Hospital

University of British Columbia
Dayan Li, M.D., Ph.D.Clinical Scholar, DermatologyStanford University
Anthony Oro, M.D., Ph.D.Eugene and Gloria Bauer Professor of Dermatology

Associate Director – Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine

Stanford University
Trevor Parry, Ph.D.VP of Research and Scientific AffairsKrystal Biotech
Aimee Payne, M.D., Ph.D.Herbert and Florence Irving Professor and Chair of Dermatology

Co-founder, Cabaletta Bio

Columbia University
Dennis Roop, Ph.D.Professor of Dermatology

Director, Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Michael Rosenblum, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of DermatologyUniversity of California, San Francisco
Jay P. Siegel, M.D.Member, National Academies’ Forum – Regenerative Medicine

Former Director of Office of Therapeutics, FDA CBER

Former Chief Biotechnology Officer, Johnson & Johnson

National Academies’ Forum on Regenerative Medicine

 

 

Short Talks

Noha Ahmed, M.D., Ph.D.Senior ResearcherThe University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kasidy Brown, B.S.PhD CandidateOregon Health and Science University
Cristina de Guzman Strong, Ph.D.Associate Scientist, Department of Dermatology (HFH); Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (MSU)Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University
Umber Dube, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Physician, DermatologyUC San Diego
Edward Eid, M.D.ScientistStanford University
Caitlin Frazee, M.S.E.Ph.D. StudentUniversity of Pennsylvania
Poppy Gould, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Research FellowNYU Langone Health
Ichiro Imanishi, CVM, Ph.D.Postdoctoral FellowIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bojing Jia, Ph.D.MD/PhD StudentUniversity of California, San Diego
Jinwoo Lee, M.D., Ph.D.Instructor of DermatologyStanford University
Jonathan Park, M.D., Ph.D.Resident Physician

 

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Cory Simpson, M.D., Ph.D., FAADAssistant Professor of DermatologyUniversity of Washington
Joel Sunshine, M.D., Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Dermatology, Pathology, Oncology and Biomedical Engineering; Residency Program Director, Department of DermatologyJohns Hopkins School of Medicine
Richard Wang, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of DermatologyUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus