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Cultivating a Three-dimensional Reconstructed Human Epidermis at a Large Scale
Published on: May 28, 2021
Development of the stratum corneum
1Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, 240 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, U.S.A.
Abstract:
In 2015, Professor Ronald (Ronnie) Marks will celebrate his 80th birthday and the 35th year since assuming the Chair of Dermatology at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales. Ronnie's long and prolific career is well deserving of a celebratory Festschrift. Among his many accomplishments, Marks was an early champion of quantitative measurements and the application of bioengineering methods to clinical skin science, with particular focus on stratum corneum biology and the measurement of skin appearance. Appealing to Ronnie's wry sense of humour, I would characterize his career in the words of the native Welshman, Dylan Thomas, who published an unfinished novel in 1955 entitled Adventures in the Skin Trade. Ronnie Marks has been a quintessential and imaginative adventurer in the 'skin trade', and he continues to forge new trails for others to follow. The areas highlighted below are emblematic of Ronnie's varied research interests and his impact on stimulating experimental questions for me and future investigators of epidermal differentiation and stratum corneum development.
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