Hidradenitis Suppurativa Genetics Consortium Members
Meet the current Hidradenitis Suppurativa Genetics Consortium members dedicated to advancing dermatological research.
Leadership
Lynn Petukhova, PhD
Co-Founder
Dr. Lynn Petukhova is an assistant professor in the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology and the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health. She received her academic training at Columbia University Medical Center in the Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and received post-graduate training in biomedical informatics though the Columbia University Data Science Institute. Dr. Petukhova leads an NIH-funded research program focused on conducting and translating human genetic studies of skin disease and on developing methods to help implement precision medicine in dermatology. Learn more about Dr. Petukhova.
Kelsey R. van Straalen, Erasmus University
Co-Founder
Dr. Kelsey van Straalen is a physician-scientist with extensive experience in Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS). After obtaining her PhD with distinction in 2020 she was awarded a Rubicon Fellowship to unravel stromal-immune cell interactions in HS at the University of Michigan under the mentorship of prof. Johann Gudjonsson. In 2022, she returned to the Erasmus University Medical Center to continue her post-doctoral research into HS. She has published over 40 peer reviewed articles on HS and has contributed to several (inter)national HS treatment guidelines. Dr. van Straalen is currently Co-Head of the Laboratory for Experimental Immunodermatology at the Erasmus University Medical Center. Her research group aims to unravel the pathogenesis of HS and related auto-inflammatory diseases in order to identify novel therapeutic targets as well as new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers.
Atlas Kahn, Columbia University
Lead Analyst
Dr. Khan is an Instructor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Nephrology) at New York-Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). He received academic training in the Departments of Medicine at CUIMC and Computational Mathematics at the Dalian University of Technology, China. He has been performing genomic analysis for kidney and skin diseases and utilized electronic health record-linked genomic data from the eMERGE Network and the UK Biobank (UKBB) dataset. More recently, his work has also included using the All of Us (AoU) data dataset to study the genetics of kidney and skin diseases.
Members
NYU Langone
Erasmus University
Errol P. Prens
Bonn University
Regina Betz
Cardiff University
John Ingram
Charité-Berlin University of Medicine
Stephan Ripke
Alice Braun
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Hákon Hákonarson
King’s College London
Nick Dand
Jonathan Barker
Michael Simpson
Jake Saklatvala
University of Chicago
Carole Ober
Peter Nagle
Frank Brown
University College Dublin
Brian Kirby
University Medical Center Groningen
Barbara Horváth
University of Michigan
Lam Tsoi
Johann E. Gudjonsson
University of Pennsylvania
Theordore G. Drivas
Marylyn D. Ritchie
University of Tartu
Maris Teder-Laving
Külli Kingo
Vanderbilt University
Lee Wheless
