Professor Ralf Paus - personal details

After his medical studies at the Unversities of Wuerzburg, Berlin and Vienna, MD thesis work at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, and an internship at the University Hospitals of Basle and Zurich, Switzerlaand, Ralf graduated from the Free University of Berlin (1987).

Following post-doctoral research at Yale University (1987-90), Ralf trained as a clinical dermatologist in Berlin, where he became consultant dermatologist at the Charité University Hospital. He was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego (1992), and Visiting Professor at the Dept. of Molecular Medicine at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich-Martinsried (2005).

From 1999-2004 Ralf served as Professor and Vice-Chair of the Dept. of Dermatology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg. After assuming his current position as Head of Experimental Dermatology at the University of Luebeck, Germany (2005), Ralf has joined the University of Manchester (co-appointment as Professor of Cutaneous in Manchester in April 2008).

Ralf is Editor of Experimental Dermatology (since 2007), Section Editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (since 2008), as well as Co-founder and Director for Basic Research of the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation (HSF), San Diego, USA.

In 2000, he co-founded the Italian skin research biotechnology company, Cutech Srl., Padova, which he left in 2005.
Ralf is married to an Italian immunologist, Silvia Bulfone-Paus with whom he has three children (Anna, Lisa, Leo) and collaborates extensively on research into interleukin-15 and mast cell biology.

Professor Ralf Paus researches into hair disorders and the science and applications of stem cells residing in the skin. He spends 0.2 of his time at the University of Manchester and 0.8 at the University of Luebeck, Germany, facilitating the highest level international research in this area.