Our Labs
Quick Facts
10 Principal Investigators
$18M active grants, incl. $10M from NIH
7 Endowed professorships
7 Research labs
5 Active VA Merit Rev. Awards
Contact
Megan Maguire
Basic Research Admin.
Dept. of Dermatology
mmaguire@dermatology.wisc.edu
608-261-1878
About our labs
Basic research faculty in the Department of Dermatology study a wide range of dermatological disorders, including skin cancers and non-cancer skin diseases such as Psoriasis, depigmentation, and skin discoloration.
Research targets in our labs range from cellular mechanisms of disease progression and drug resistance to patient presentation in a clinical setting, and our researchers are investigating new uses for current drugs such as anti-inflammatories, as well as the use of plant-based chemicals for chemoprevention.
Our world-renowned researchers are supported by grants from the Dermatology Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense and several other non-profit organizations and companies.
Research Topics by Lab
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All Labs
- Melanoma development and progression
- Use of plant-based chemicals for chemoprevention
- Role of Plk1 in Cancer
- Role of SIRT1 in Cancer
- Chemoprevention of Cancer by Resveratrol
- Frizzled6 signaling in hair orientation control
- Astrotactin2 in PCP and development
- Melanoma development and progression
- Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm
- Depigmentation
- Skin discoloration
- Establishing mastocytosis as an oncogene driven neoplasia
- Discovery and characterization of the intracellular-juxtamembrane class of KIT activating mutations
- Discovery of human epidermal keratinocyte KIT ligand and creation of humanized K14-KIT ligand transgenic mice with epidermal melanocytes
- Melanoma development and progression
- Psoriasis
- New uses for existing anti-inflammatories
- Use of plant-based chemicals for chemoprevention
- Cancer prevention and therapy
- Prevention of photocarcinogenesis and photoaging
- Apoptosis by dietary factors: the suicide solution for delaying cancer growth
- Nanochemoprevention-sustained release of bioactive food components for cancer prevention
- Cancer biomarkers
- Cutaneous T-cell lymphomas
- Cellular mechanisms of disease progression and drug resistance
- Phenotypic plasticity and drug-resistance
- Metabolic dynamics during cancer progression
- Targeting the mitochondrial stress response
- Melanoma development and progression
- Cellular mechanisms of disease progression and drug resistance
- Melanocyte biology
- Melanoma development and progression
- Patient presentation in a clinical setting
Labs by Research Topic
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Labs by Topic: Skin Cancer
Labs by Topic: Non-Cancer Skin Diseases
Labs by Topic: Research Target
Research News
Drs. Glinert, Schieke, and Wood to guest-host cutaneous lymphoma patient forum on Oct 19, 2019
Three UW Dermatologists are hosting a patient forum on Cutaneous Lymphoma in Milwaukee on October 19, 2019.
September 3, 2019Chang Wins Stiefel Research Award
Assistant Professor of Dermatology Hao Chang, PhD, received the 2019 Daneen & Charles Stiefel Investigative Scientist Award for Melanoma Research from the American Skin Association. The $100,000, one-year award will support Chang’s research on the …
January 3, 2019UWSDRC Funds Six Pilot Awards In 2019
After a successful application cycle, the UW Skin Disease Research Center announces funding of six new pilot projects totaling almost $200,000. We are pleased to fund several applications with direct clinical relevance in this cycle, …
October 15, 2018- More Research News posts
Recent Publications
See what we're publishing! Our clinical and research faculty and their staff publish their research in a variety of top-tier journals.
Active Research Grants
See what we're working on! We receive funding from federal, state, and private sources.
