Department of Dermatology

Tkaczyk and collaborators will assemble a database of more than 11,000 photographs and associated clinical information from diverse patient populations at five centers: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, NIH, University of Pennsylvania and VUMC.

Six junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows have been appointed this year to the Vanderbilt Faculty Research Scholars (VFRS) program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Collegiate tennis and golf athletes aren’t using enough sunscreen according to a recent survey; meanwhile, the deadly skin cancer melanoma is on the rise.

Detailed studies of the enzymatic properties of PNPLA1 support the requirement for this protein in skin barrier formation.

A machine learning algorithm developed by researchers at Vanderbilt performs as well as humans at identifying skin lesions in clinical photographs of people with monkeypox.

Vanderbilt's Nicole Ward, PhD, was one of three honorees who were the focus of attention at the National Psoriasis Foundation’s 2022 Commit to Cure Gala: Celebrating Women Who Lead, held recently in Chicago.