Johann Gudjonsson, MD, PhD

Dr. Gudjonsson, MD, PhD is the Arthur C. Curtis Professor of Skin Molecular Immunology and Professor of Dermatology, Internal Medicine Division of Rheumatology, and a Taubman Medical Research Institute Scholar at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Gudjonsson’s is the Director of the Skin Research Center at University of Michigan, and his primary research focus is basic immunological and genetic research on chronic inflammatory skin diseases.

He has published over 330 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier journals, including Nature Immunology, Nature Genetics, Immunity, JCI, and Science Translational Medicine. He received the Young Investigator Award from the American Academy of Dermatology in 2007, and his work has earned several research awards, including awards from the American Skin Association and Doris Duke Foundation, and was selected as the Society for Investigative Dermatology Rising Star Lecture in 2018.  He was elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2020 and the American Association of Physicians (AAP) in 2024 and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS). He has received several NIH R01, UO1, and P award and is the director of University of Michigan Skin Research Center.