Research Line

Integrated approach to personalized cancer diagnosis and therapy /
Dermatology

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Unit

Research activity CLOSEREAD

Skin diseases with systemic implications
The research activity of our Dermatology focuses mainly on frequently encountered immune-mediated skin diseases such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and urticaria and skin diseases of an autoimmune nature such as pemphigus, pemphigoid, scleroderma, lupus, dermatomyositis, vasculitis, pyoderma gangrenosum and other neutrophilic dermatoses. Another condition once considered rare but now considered frequently encountered on which Dermatology focuses its efforts is hydrosadenitis suppurativa. Also being researched are skin neoplasms such as melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer, the latter of which are commonly observed, as well as cutaneous lymphomas and histiocytosis, which represent rare forms instead. Several national and international clinical trials are active on all the above-mentioned diseases.

Top instruments CLOSEREAD

Immunohistochemistry and immunostaining
Immunofluorescence
Array of SNPs
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and real-time PCR
Skin ultrasound (ARIETTA 850, Hitachi)
Whole-exome sequencing (in outservice)
RNA sequencing (in outservice) / Nanostring (in outservice)
In vitro models (in outservice)

Collaborations CLOSEREAD

University of Trieste - Burlo Garofolo Hospital
University of Qatar
University of Paris Creteil
University of Turin
Dessau Medical Center
International registry and new tools for clinical outcome assessment - Portland and Boston, USA
TASK Force of the European Society of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) - University of Lübeck, Germany