The American Skin Association (ASA) announced the recipients of the 2024 Inaugural Founders Award and the 2024 Research Achievement Awards at the 2024 Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID) Annual Meeting.
The 2024 Inaugural Founders Award was presented to Kim Yancey, MD of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. Dr. Yancey is a professor and the former Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He has been a National Institutes of Health-funded researcher for more than 25 years.
ASA’s Research Achievement Awards were instituted in 1989 to identify established scientists in investigative dermatology and cutaneous biology.
This year, ASA acknowledged individuals who significantly progressed research in autoimmune and inflammatory skin conditions, vitiligo, skin cancer, melanoma, pigment cell disorders, psoriasis, and translational research, as well as community education and outreach.
The winners of the 2024 Research Achievement Awards include:
2024 Research Achievement Award in Psoriasis
Joseph F. Merola, MD, MMSc, FAAD, FACR
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2024 Research Achievement Award in Autoimmune & Inflammatory Skin Disorders and Vitiligo
David Fiorentino, MD, PhD
Stanford Medicine
2024 Research Achievement Award in Skin Cancer, Melanoma and Pigment Cell Disorders
Madeleine Duvic, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas
2024 Research Achievement Award in Discovery
Thomas S. Kupper, MD, FAAD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
2024 Research Achievement Award in Translational Research
Laura Korb Ferris, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
2024 Research Achievement Award in Community Education/Outreach
SPOTS – Sun Protection Outreach Teaching by Students
Sofia Chaudhry, MD, St. Louis University School of Medicine
M. Laurin Council, MD, MBA, FAAD, FACMS, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
