Funder: Dermatology Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (CDA renewal) | October 2027 (New CDA application)
Funding Amounts: $75,000 annual salary stipend, renewable once for two years of funding
Summary: Supports creative, clinically relevant dermatology research and physician-scientists transitioning from fellowship to established investigator.
Key Information: Applicants need U.S. dermatology residency training and a primary junior faculty appointment in dermatology.
Description
The Dermatology Foundation’s Physician Scientist Career Development Award supports academic physician-scientists devoted to clinical dermatology. It helps investigators move from fellowship toward an established research career, emphasizing significant creativity in clinically relevant research. The award combines salary support with an expectation of strong institutional commitment to the investigator’s development.
Supported work spans skin disease mechanisms, immune responses, cancer, and epidermal function. Past projects have examined melanoma immunotherapy, allergic skin inflammation, scarring alopecias, skin fibrosis, and inflammatory dermatoses. A featured project by Christoph T. Ellebrecht, MD, at the University of Pennsylvania investigates targeted immunotherapy for gamma-delta T-cell cancers and immune profiling in COVID-19, psoriasis, and lymphoma.
