Emma Guttman

Biography

 Professor Emma Guttman, M.D. & Ph.D. is Professor of Dermatology & Immunology and Director of the Center for Excellence in Eczema and the Occupational/Contact Dermatitis Clinic and the Director of the Laboratory of Inflammatory Skin Diseases in the Department of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Dr. Guttman’s major clinical focus is in atopic dermatitis/eczema and contact/occupational dermatitis. She is a preeminent dermatologist studying molecular and cellular pathomechanisms of atopic dermatitis/eczema in humans, and made paradigm-shifting observations on its immunologic mechanisms, with important therapeutic implications, opening the door to new therapeutic discoveries. She was instrumental in identifying the importance of IL-22 cytokine in atopic dermatitis and has recently received a large NIAMS/NIH grant to study the therapeutic effects of blocking IL-22 in patients with eczema. Dr. Guttman earned her M.D. from Sackler School of Medicine at the Tel-Aviv University, and her Ph.D. from the Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Research Interest

 ermatology & Immunology