Currently Funded Investigators
Currently Funded Investigators
Shervin Assassi, MD, MS
UT Health Houston McGovern School of Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Franck Barrat, PhD
Senior Scientist,
Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology,
Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
David Beck, MD, PhD
New York University
Aaron Bodansky, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics,
University of California, San Francisco
Wei Chen, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Biostatistics, and Human Genetics,
University of Pittsburgh
Joe Derisi, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco
Diana Dou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Integrative Immunobiology,
Duke University
Ryan Flynn, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology,
Harvard University
Johann Gudjonsson, MD, PhD
Arthur C. Curtis Professor of Molecular Skin Immunology and the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Emerging Scholar of the Taubman Medical Research Institute,
University of Michigan
Laura Hummers, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Rheumatology and Professor of Internal Medicine,
University of Michigan
Ji Soo Kim, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jinwoo Lee, MD, PhD
Instructor, Dermatology,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Michael Longaker, MD, MBA
Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology,
Yale School of Medicine
Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ami Shah, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kim Simpfendorfer, PhD
Assistant Professor,
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Kathryn Torok, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital
Paul J. Utz, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology),
Stanford University School of Medicine
Gerlinde Wernig, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Michael Whitfield, PhD
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Paul Wolters, MD
Professor of Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco
Bingfei Yu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
University of Southern California
Scott Zeger, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Next Generation of Investigators
Knowing that future discovery will come from the next generation of scientists, the Scleroderma Research Foundation provides grants to young investigators. Postdoctoral fellowship grants allow researchers to enter the field of scleroderma research and work alongside established investigators.
Early Career Grants provide the resources for scleroderma clinicians, at early stages of their careers, to devote time to substantial research endeavors. As an indicator of success, several SRF-funded fellows and recipients of an Early Career Grant are now dedicating themselves to the field of scleroderma research.