Professor Menno de Rie is a board-certified dermatologist and since 2012, the vice-chair of the department of Dermatology of the Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam. Before specializing in dermatology, he earned a PhD in immunology. Previously he worked at the dermatology department of Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam and served as director and senior expert on translational dermatology at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Basel. He specializes in immunodermatology with a focus on psoriasis and auto-immune diseases. Professor de Rie is especially interested in translational medicine, a field that explores how pre-clinical observations can be applied in clinical practice, resulting in more effective treatments for dermatology patients. Professor de Rie has also served in various consultative and management capacities. Professor de Rie is a board member of the European Society for Dermatological Research and chair of the Finance Committee of the European Academy for Dermatology and Venereology. He has published extensively in academic journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Nature, Archives of Dermatology, the Journal of Investigative Dermatology and the British Journal of Dermatology.