Dr. Johann Gudjonsson is the Arthur C. Curtis Professor of Skin Molecular Immunology and Professor of Dermatology, Internal Medicine Division of Rheumatology, and a Taubman Medical Research Institute Scholar at the University of Michigan. Dr. Gudjonsson is the Director of the Skin Research Center at the University of Michigan, and his primary research focus is basic immunological and genetic research on chronic inflammatory skin diseases. He has published over 390 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier journals, including Nature Immunology, Nature Genetics, Immunity, Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), and Science Translational Medicine. He received the Young Investigator Award from the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) in 2007, and his work has earned several research awards, including those from the American Skin Association and the Doris Duke Foundation. He was selected as the Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID) Rising Star Lecturer in 2018. He was elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2020 and the American Association of Physicians (AAP) in 2024 and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS). He has received several NIH R01, UO1, and P awards. He is the Director of the University of Michigan Skin Research Center, an NIH-sponsored P30 Research Core. He is on the Society for Investigative Dermatology Board of Directors, a Scientific Counselor to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Psoriasis Foundation (NPF).