The current focus of the Lin Jin lab is mainly on:
1) Modeling human skin diseases using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs);
2) Defining the molecular pathogenetic mechanisms of hidradenitis suppurativa;
3) Developing drug discovery platforms for skin disease therapy.

Andrzej T. Slominski is an Endowed Professor of Dermatology and Senior Scientist at Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer Chemoprevention Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham and dermatopathologist as the VA medical Center since 2015. He obtained his MD and PhD from the Medical University of Gdansk. After being forced to emigrate from Poland he went on to the Yale University where he received training in pigment cell and melanoma biology under Aaron B Lerner and John Pawelek. He finished his residency in pathology and fellowship in dermatopathology under Martin Mihm in Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York, and became board certified in AP and DP.

The lab has research interests in immunology, cutaneous inflammatory diseases, and skin cancers. Current projects are focused on mechanisms for ultraviolet radiation (UVR)-induced immune suppression and skin cancer. We investigate UVR-induced tolerogenic antigen-presenting cells and the mechanisms by which they induce regulatory T cells and immune suppression. We also examine whether blocking the activity of UVR-induced tolerogenic antigen-presenting cells can diminish or abolishUVR-induced immune suppression and skin cancer. The study is sponsored by the NIH.