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Official XXIst International Pigment Cell Conference website - 21-24 Sept 2011, Bordeaux - France | updated: September 04 2011
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Mr Eli Sprecher
Position
Professor and Chair of Dermatology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv · Israel
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iPCC2011 Lecture
Keratin disorders associated with abnormal pigmentation: clinical and molecular insights.
Biosketch
Prof. Eli Sprecher serves as chair of Dermatology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. He is also Associate Professor of Dermatology at the Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel as well as Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. He received his MD degree from Hadassah Medical School, completed a PhD thesis in molecular virology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel and trained in dermatology at the Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel. He spent a post-doctoral fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA and moved back to the department of Dermatology at the Rambam Medical Center where he directed the Laboratory of Molecular Dermatology until 2008. In 2007, he was appointed deputy director of the Rappaport Institute for Medical Sciences, Technion, Haifa, Israel and in 2007 he established within the same institute the Rappaport-Rambam Center for Translational Genetics. In 2008, he moved to Tel Aviv to head the Department of Dermatology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. His research deals with the molecular genetics of inherited and acquired skin diseases. His group has uncovered the genetic basis of 12 different diseases over the years, he has co-authored more than 120 scientific publications and he is the recipient of numerous international awards including the Everett C. Fox Award of the American Academy of Dermatology and the Alfred Marchionini Award.
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