Building Social and Scientific Networks to Grow Our Global Skin Biology Community

Unity in Action

“…In addition to covering the preparatory and on-site Retreat costs, each of the three societies provided travel grants for 20-21 trainees to attend. The enthusiastic feedback from attendees of this mentoring activity was described in a recent JID editorial on the Year of Unity (Pentland, 2013).…”

Clinician Scientists and PhDs: The Need to Connect Basic Research to Translational Medicine—A Personal Experience

“…One important measure is the establishment of mentoring retreats for MDs and PhDs, such as those that in recent years have been established by the ESDR, the SID, and the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology. This resulted in an international MD/PhD fellow retreat organized by all three societies at the International Investigative Dermatology 2013 meeting in Edinburgh (Pentland, 2013;Enk et al, 2012). These retreats are instrumental in setting up long-term international collaborations and contacts.…”