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Tamia Harris-Tryon, MD, PhD\u00a0is Vice Chair of Basic Research in the Department of Dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she holds the Thomas L. Shields Professorship. Her laboratory investigates the skin microbiome, focusing on how resident microbes shape the skin barrier and contribute to the pathogenesis of inflammatory skin diseases. A central aim of her group is translating these fundamental discoveries into new therapeutic approaches for patients.<\/p>\n
Dr. Harris-Tryon received her MD and PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she also completed her dermatology residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Board-certified by the American Board of Dermatology, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2014 and pursued additional research training in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute laboratory of Dr. Lora Hooper.<\/p>\n
She has published in Cell Host & Microbe, Science, eLife,\u00a0and PNAS,\u00a0advancing understanding of immune\u2013microbiome\u2013skin interactions, and has authored influential reviews in Science, JAAD,\u00a0and Mucosal Immunology.\u00a0Her honors include the American Academy of Dermatology Young Investigator Award (2017). In 2024, she was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), where she now serves on the council.<\/p>\n
Her research program is supported by the NIH (R01), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the Leo Foundation. She lives in Dallas with her husband, Ahren Tryon, and their two children.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture 2: Immune\u2013Endocrine Regulation of Skin Microbiome Homeostasis Thursday, May 14, 2:45 \u2013 3:15 PM About Tamia Harris-Tryon, MD\/PhD Tamia Harris-Tryon, MD, PhD\u00a0is Vice Chair of Basic Research in the Department of Dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she holds the Thomas L. Shields Professorship. Her laboratory investigates the skin microbiome, focusing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20206466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Roger Lo, MD\/PhD","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-20206464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-annual-meeting-named-lectures"],"yoast_head":"\n