Precision Medicine for Heritable Skin Diseases-The Paradigm of Epidermolysis Bullosa

Jouni Uitto; Velina S Atanasova; Qiujie Jiang; Andrew P South

doi:10.1016/j.jisp.2018.09.004

Precision Medicine for Heritable Skin Diseases-The Paradigm of Epidermolysis Bullosa

J Investig Dermatol Symp Proc. 2018 Dec;19(2):S74-S76. doi: 10.1016/j.jisp.2018.09.004.

Authors

Jouni Uitto¹, Velina S Atanasova², Qiujie Jiang², Andrew P South²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Electronic address: Jouni.Uitto@jefferson.edu.
² Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

PMID: 30471755
DOI: 10.1016/j.jisp.2018.09.004

Abstract

The 2016 JID Beijing Workshop, held in the context of the 5^th National Congress of Investigative Dermatology of the Chinese Society of Dermatology, had the thematic focus on "Precision Medicine in Dermatology." This theme was extremely timely, yet forward-looking, due to the fact that precision medicine is one of the fastest growing paradigms of contemporary medicine (Box 1).