Luca Borradori MD

Professor Luca Borradori graduated from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and completed his specialist training at the University Hospital Saint Louis in Paris, France, and at the University Hospitals in both Lausanne and Geneva. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the dermatology branch of the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, in Bethesda, and at the Cell Biology Division of the Netherlands Cancer Institute. He was Head of outpatient clinics in Geneva between 1997 and 2007, where he became Associate Professor of Dermatology.

In 2008, he took his current position as Chairman and full professor in Bern. While research areas focus on the characterization of the organization of the intermediate filament network and of hemidesmosomes in keratinocytes, the clinical focus is devoted to autoimmune blistering diseases and the cutaneous manifestations of systemic diseases.

Luca Borradori has in the past, been backed by the Swiss National Foundation of Research as well as by numerous European Framework programs which have resulted in the publication of well over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Apart from a strong national investment, Borradori has a robust international engagement, reflected in his commitment to the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) as its President from 2016 to 2018 and as Director and Vice-president of the International Society of Dermatology (ISD) (2009-2016).

In addition, he works as an associate editor of leading dermatological magazines. Luca Borradori is an honorary member of various national societies, such as the Société Française de Dermatologie and the American Dermatology Association (ADA). He has received presidential citations from the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD).