Drs. Patricia Walker and Thomas Darling
Drs. Patricia Walker and Thomas Darling, both of NCI's
Dermatology Branch, will be awarded two of the five
Young Investigator Awards of the American Academy
of Dermatology at its national meeting in San
Francisco this month. Walker has helped develop a
gene therapy approach where genes are introduced
and expressed in skin by injecting naked plasmid
DNA into the dermis. Her most recent research is
focused on development of an effective vaccine for
leishmaniasis. Darling is using molecular
approaches to analyze candidate genes for evidence
of mutations that account for subepidermal blister
formation in patients with a form of epidermolysis
bullosa.
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