Vision for the Center
Mission
- Ensure the best possible care for patients with psoriasis
- Discover the causes of psoriasis
- Identify improved therapies for patients with psoriasis
- Partner with industry to bring treatments to market more quickly
- Educate physicians and the community about new findings
- Patients at the core
- Discovery Research: Highly collaborative and interdisciplinary, leads to patents, start-up companies, out-licensing
- Translational Research: Leads to improved clinical trial design, validation of spin-off benefits for other autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory, vascular, and neoplastic diseases
- Clinical Research: Collaboration with pharmaceutical and biologic-products manufacturers to test new therapies
- Community Outreach: Website and other educational offerings for patients, care providers, and the media focused on medical and psychological effects
- Outcomes Research: To identify unmet needs and direct new discovery
- Rebalancing the immune system in psoriasis
- Genetics of psoriasis
- Veterans and psoriasis
- Triggers for psoriasis flare-ups
- Photomedicine
- Protected time for physician-researchers to pursue new and promising ideas
- Increased funding leveraged from the NIH, VA, and other sources
- Increased opportunities for collaboration among University Hospitals Case Medical Center departments
- Increased number of national clinical trials to evaluate new and established therapies
- Translational research that improves the quality of patients’ lives
- Partnerships with industry to bring therapies to market
- Education of community and beyond about the causes and treatments of psoriasis
- Training a cadre of physicians and scientists dedicated to psoriasis