Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Research Fellowships

Number of Positions per Year: 1-6

Prior Education/Training Requirements
Predoctoral Research Fellowships are for medical students. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships require an M.D. or Ph.D. degree.

Postdoctoral candidates should make a commitment of at least two years, and some previous research experience is desirable.
We encourage minority applications.

Application Deadline
Applications are accepted at any time.

Description of Training Program
The Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania has a long history of successful research in cutaneous biology and, more recently, in clinical epidemiology. For over 10 years we have been in the top five Departments of Dermatology in receipt of funding from the National Institutes of Health, and for the past three years we have been the number 1 or 2 Department. In addition to other funding sources, our NIH T32 Dermatology Training Grant funds 4 post-doctoral, 2 pre-doctoral and 3 short-term pre-doctoral fellows per year. Applications from minority, disabled, or economically disadvantaged applicants are particularly encouraged.

Each Research Fellow works under the direction of a faculty mentor. In addition, each Fellow takes part in Departmental seminars and journal clubs. The University also provides a Research Fellowship infrastructure that includes benefits and special seminars covering multiple areas such as safe laboratory techniques, ethics, grant writing, career opportunities, and others.

Our goal is to train Research Fellows to become independent investigators in either academics or industry.

Specific areas of scientific research include: differentiation, adhesion, embryological development, stem cells and signal transduction in epidermis and hair follicles; nuclear transcription factors in epidermal and germ cell differentiation and RNA transcription; gene therapy targeting the epidermis and hair follicle; autoimmune blistering and rheumatologic diseases of skin, impetigo and staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome; proteases in skin physiology and pathophysiology; basic pathophysiologic and translational clinical therapeutic studies of cutaneous T cell lymphoma; and clinical epidemiology, health services studies and clinical trials.

Applications should be submitted to our departmental application page.

Director of Research

Sarah E. Millar, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Dermatology
University of Pennsylvania
M8D Stellar-Chance Laboratories, 422 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 191042
Phone: 215-898-2633
FAX: 215-573-910
millars@mail.med.upenn.edu