VISION FOR THE
CENTER
Mission
- Ensure
the best possible care for patients with psoriasis
- Discover
the causes of psoriasis
- Identify
improved therapies for patients with psoriasis
- Partner
with industry to bring treatments to market more quickly
- Educate
physicians and the community about new findings
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Strategies
- Patients
at the core
- Discovery
Research: Highly collaborative and interdisciplinary, leads to
patents, start-up companies, out-licensing
- Translational
Research: Leads to improved clinical trial design, validation of
spin-off benefits for other autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory,
vascular, and neoplastic diseases
- Clinical
Research: Collaboration with pharmaceutical and biologic-products
manufacturers to test new therapies
- Community
Outreach: Website and other educational offerings for patients,
care providers, and the media focused on medical and psychological
effects
- Outcomes
Research: To identify unmet needs and direct new discovery
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Focus
- Rebalancing
the immune system in psoriasis
- Genetics
of psoriasis
- Veterans
and psoriasis
- Triggers
for psoriasis flare-ups
- Photomedicine
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Anticipated
Outcomes
- Protected
time for physician-researchers to pursue new and promising ideas
- Increased
funding leveraged from the NIH, VA, and other sources
- Increased
opportunities for collaboration among University Hospitals Case
Medical Center departments
- Increased
number of national clinical trials to evaluate new and established
therapies
- Translational
research that improves the quality of patients’ lives
- Partnerships
with industry to bring therapies to market
- Education
of community and beyond about the causes and treatments of psoriasis
- Training
a cadre of physicians and scientists dedicated to psoriasis
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CENTER NEWS
First
Ever Psoriasis Legislation Introduced in Congress
National Psoriasis Foundation
to ask for support of bill on Capitol Hill Day
University
Hospitals
Receives $5 Million
Largest Dermatology Gift
in the U.S.
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news >>
RELATED
LINKS
National
Psoriasis Foundation
Non-profit organization dedicated
to educating, serving and empowering people with psoriasis
and psoriatic arthritis.
National
Institutes of Health (NIH)
The primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.
Medline
Plus
Service provided by the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
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