State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture (TS)
Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Early Life Immune-Microbe Crosstalk in Skin
Tiffany Scharschmidt MD is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Scharschmidt completed her predoctoral work as an NIH-HHMI scholar with Dr. Julia Segre and her postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF under the combined mentorship of Michael Rosenblum MD PhD, Michael Fischbach PhD, and Abul Abbas MD. Established in 2016, her independent laboratory focuses on uncovering cellular and molecular mechanisms that mediate early life interactions between skin bacteria and the cutaneous immune system. Her research productivity and excellence have been recognized by uninterrupted NIH support and honors including the AAD Young Investigator Award, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and the Dermatology Foundation Mid-Career Sun Pharma Award. Dr. Scharschmidt’s work, which has identified neonatal life as a “window of opportunity” for establishing immune tolerance to skin commensal bacteria, has fundamental implications for our understanding of cutaneous biology as well as future therapeutic approaches for inflammatory skin disease.
Education
B.A, 2002, Princeton University
MD, 2008, USCF
Dermatology Residency, 2013, UCSF
Associate Professor, UCSF, 2019 – , UCSF