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Dr. Uitto is internationally recognized for his research on connective tissue biochemistry and molecular biology in relation to cutaneous diseases. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 1970, and he completed his residency training in Dermatology from 1975 through 1978 at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

Dr. Uitto has been Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, since 1987. He is also Director of the Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, as well as Program Director of the Jefferson Dermatology Residency Training Program.

Dr. Uitto's publications include 400 original articles in peer-reviewed journals, 21 manuscripts submitted for publication, 187 textbook chapters and review articles, and 631 abstracts which have been presented at national and international meetings. He is also a member of several professional societies, including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Dermatological Association, and the Association of American Physicians. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, the Distinguished Service Award from the Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association of America, the William Montagna Lectureship Award from the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the Hermann Pinkus Memorial Lectureship Award from the American Society of Dermatopathology, the Earl of Litchfield Lectureship Award of Oxford University, Honorary Membership of the Finnish Dermatological Association, Honorary Membership of the Polish Dermatological Society, and Honorary Membership of the Korean Society for Investigative Dermatology. In 1994, he was selected as the recipient of the Marion B. Sulzberger Memorial Award and Lectureship and was designated as the "Professor of the Year" by the American Academy of Dermatology. Dr. Uitto has been awarded the prestigious Matti Äyräpää Lectureship, the highest physician-scientist Award in his native country, Finland. Most recently, Dr. Uitto was appointed as the 1996 Anglo-American Visiting Professor of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, U.K., and he received an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine Degree from the University of Kuopio, Finland.

Dr. Uitto has held office in several scientific and professional societies, including President of the Western Society for Investigative Dermatology, Member and Chairperson of the Medical and Scientific Committee of the Dermatology Foundation, and Member and Chair of the General Medicine A Study Section at the National Institutes of Health. He is currently Member of the Board of Scientific Councilors, National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He is also Member of the Board of Directors, National Association for PXE, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of PXE International, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association of America, and Vice-President of the Dermatology Foundation. Dr. Uitto is also Section Editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology and is on the Editorial Board of numerous peer-reviewed journals.

Pulkkinen, L., Bullrich, F., Czarnecki, P., Weiss, L., Uitto, J.: Maternal Uniparental Disomy of Chromosome 1 with Reduction to Homozygosity of the LAMB3 Locus in a Patient with Herlitz Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 61:611-619, 1997.

Jonkman, M.F., Scheffer, H., Stulp, R., Pas, H.H., Nijenhuis, M., Heeres, K., Owaribe, K., Pulkkinen, L., Uitto, J.: Revertant Mosaicism in Epidermolysis Bullosa Caused by Mitotic Gene Conversion. Cell 88, 543-551, 1997.