Angela Christiano

Professor and Vice Chair of Research in Dermatology and Genetics and Development · Columbia University · company speakers →

Angela Christiano has been a member of the Faculty of Columbia University in New York City since her arrival in 1995 as an Assistant Professor and has steadily ascended in rank to a tenured Professorship and Vice Chair of Research in Dermatology and Genetics and Development. Her work has had a transformative impact on the field of investigative dermatology for nearly 20 years. She began her research career by studying epidermolysis bullosa, a severe inherited blistering disease for which she discovered many of the causative genes and provided a framework for molecular diagnosis of the disease. More recently, she has turned her attention to studying the genetics of alopecia and other hair disorders, primarily because she herself suffers from alopecia areata, an autoimmune form of hair loss. Her team led a series of large scale genetic studies that defined the genetic basis of alopecia areata in the past few years, which revealed important insights about unexpected therapeutic targets. Her studies in alopecia areata have transformed our understanding of disease pathogenesis, and also identified the first class of drugs with mechanism-based efficacy.

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