Dr. Marjana Tomic-Canic Honored as 2024 Stoughton Lecture Speaker
The award recognizes the accomplishments of world-renowned investigators who have made important impacts on the understanding and treatment of dermatological diseases.
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Marjana Tomic-Canic, Ph.D., gave the 2024 Stoughton Lecture at the University of California-San Diego earlier this year.
The Stoughton Lecture recognizes the accomplishments of world-renowned investigators in dermatology who have made important impacts on the understanding and treatment of dermatological diseases. It honors the memory of Dr. Richard Stoughton, whose distinguished research career included developing a system for the assay of the potency of topical corticosteroids that has become the world standard.
Dr. Tomic-Canic is the William H. Eaglstein, M.D., Chair in Wound Healing, Vice Chair of Research, director of the Wound Healing and Regenerative Medicine Research Program and professor in the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the Miller School. She credited the strength of the dermatology department as an integral factor in her selection.
“I was deeply honored and humbled to have been selected to deliver the 2024 Stoughton Lecture,” Dr. Tomic-Canic said. “I may have been the Stoughton Lecture speaker, but teamwork and collaboration are key to discovery. I want to recognize our Wound Healing and Regenerative Research Program, along with many of my UM colleagues and collaborators who have worked and continue to work with me over many years: Robert Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D., Hadar Lev-Tov, M.D., Evangelos Badiavas, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Stephen Davis, Irena Pastar, Ph.D., Ivan Jozic, Ph.D., Rivka Stone, M.D., Ph.D., Andrew Sawaya, Ph.D., Natasa Strbo, M.D., DSc, Tongyu Cao-Wikramanayake, Ph.D., and so many of our trainees, residents, students and fellows.”
Dr Tomic-Canic is an internationally recognized scientist, inventor and leader in skin biology and the mechanisms that control tissue repair and regeneration. She has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed papers in influential journals. In addition to participating in review panels of NIH study sections—she recently completed service as chair of the Arthritis, Connective Tissue and Skin Sciences Study Section—she served as member of the NIH Advisory Council and Council of the Councils for the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) NIH initiative.
Dr Tomic-Canic is also an inspiring mentor. She has successfully trained more than 100 mentees, all of whom have either won an award or obtained funding under her mentorship. She served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Experimental Dermatology and is currently a section editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, a senior editor of Wound Repair and Regeneration and a member of editorial board of the International Wound Journal.
Dr. Tomic-Canic served as president of the Wound Healing Society from 2016 to 2017 and received the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Her Stoughton Lecture honor is another in a long line of recent awards she and her department colleagues have earned, including:
• Two Wound Healing Society Lifetime Achievement Award winners, William Eaglstein, M.D., in 2018, and Dr. Tomic-Canic in 2022.
• Irena Pastar, Ph.D., earning the 2023 Mid-Career Faculty Award from the Wound Healing Society.
• Jelena Marjanovic, Ph.D., garnering the 2024 Award for Excellence in Translational Regenerative Science from the Wound Healing Society.
• Rivka Stone, M.D., Ph.D., receiving the Wound Healing Foundation’s H. Paul Ehrlich Rising Star in Wound Healing Award and 3M Fellowship Award, as well as the Anita Roberts Award from the Wound Healing Society.
“It is exciting to celebrate the achievements of our faculty as they continue to raise the bar of excellence in their fields,” Dr. Tomic-Canic said.
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