Provides a minimum of two years of postdoctoral training in Immunodermatology for a full time career in academic Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. In the past eleven years 13 of 16 graduates of this program entered full time academic careers and 12 are currently retained in full time academic Dermatology.
The training faculty consists of 5 MD & 3 PhD trainers and includes more senior scientists including the Chairman of Cellular and Structural Biology and the Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine. Previous trainee supervisors in the Department of Immunology, the Department of Pharmacology and Division of Rheumatology of the Department of Medicine are included. Each training faculty has substantial independent funding. The proposed training faculty members have each demonstrated successful mentoring of past trainees leading to academic careers.
Research areas of interest include: cutaneous molecular virology, melanocyte biology, melanoma, oncogenes, cytotoxic mechanisms and programmed cell death of keratinocytes , leukotrienes, cytokines including IL-1, T cell receptors , photoimmunology and cell surface receptors. It is proposed that PhD as well as MD candidates be included for the first time with two trainees recruited each year such that in any one year there may be four trainees, two first year and two second year. All trainees will be postdoctoral and should have evinced they are capable of a career in academic Dermatology or Cutaneous Biology.
David Norris MD, is the training director, with Mayumi Fujita, MD, PhD, Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, and Carl Edwards, PhD serving as program co-directors. Four essentials of training are involved: Formal coursework, seminars, individual research projects and communications skills. Special emphasis on formal coursework in Immunology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics, Cellular Biology, Scientific Ethics, Biostatistics and Management of Hazardous waste is proposed. Trainees will train within the laboratories of the Departments of Dermatology, Immunology, Cellular & Structural Biology, Pharmacology or the Divisions of Rheumatology and Infectious Disease of the Department of Medicine of the University of Colorado. Trainees will select a project of their own interest or from among a list presented to them by the Training Supervisors.
Communication skills of the trainees will be emphasized with specific training in scientific writing and presentations. Trainees will have an office with computer with Internet capabilities plus will receive support for scientific literature searches and graphics. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.
Apply to:
David A. Norris, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Dermatology
P.O. Box 6511, Mail Stop 8127
Aurora, CO 80045