2025 Research Achievement Awards
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David A. Norris, MD
2025 ASA Founders AwardDr. Norris is an internationally renowned investigator in cutaneous immunology and cell biology and melanoma research, and ASA’s President Emeritus. Recently retired, he was on the faculty of the University of Colorado for over 50 years. Dr. Norris had been continuously funded by the NIH since 1980. He was Director of the NIAMS-funded P30 Skin Diseases Research Core Center at the University of Colorado Denver and co-Director of the NIAMS T32 training grant that had been funded over 35 years.
As Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Colorado, he built a strong research program with a focus on cutaneous oncology, immunodermatology and stem cell research. He also expanded the teaching and clinical missions of the department and maintained his own active practice at the VA and University Clinics.
Dr. Norris has held many positions in dermatology, including being President of American Skin Association, Editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and serving on the Board of Directors of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, as its President from 1998–1999.
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Lynn Cornelius, MD
Washington University in St. Louis
2025 ASA Research Achievement Award in Public Policy and EducationDr. Cornelius is the Winfred A. & Emma R. Showman Professor and Chief of Dermatology at Washington University School of Medicine. Her clinical and investigative focus is in the area of melanoma and skin cancer. She is one of the co-directors of the melanoma multidisciplinary initiative at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Siteman Cancer Center and the Focus Group Leader for Melanoma and Skin Cancer.
She has served on the Board of Directors, as Vice-President and President of the Society of Investigative Dermatology. She has been a Trustee of the Dermatology Foundation and Secretary-Treasurer and then President of the Association of Professors in Dermatology.
She served on the Medical and Scientific Committee of the American Skin Association and is the immediate past-Chair of the Council on Science & Research of the American Academy of Dermatology. She is one of the founding members of Sun Protection Outreach Teaching by Students (SPOTS). She was also appointed to the Board of Trustees of the St. Louis Science Center.
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Patrick M. Brunner, MD, MSc
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2025 ASA Research Achievement Award in Skin Cancer and MelanomaDr. Brunner obtained his MD degree from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He completed his residency in Dermatology at the Department of Dermatology at the Medical University of Vienna (General Hospital Vienna), under the mentorship of Dr. Georg Stingl. Afterwards, Dr. Brunner joined the Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology at The Rockefeller University in New York, obtaining a Master’s Degree in Clinical and Translational Sciences, and performed research on atopic dermatitis under the mentorship of Drs. Emma Guttman and James G. Krueger. In 2018, he started to build his own research group at the Medical University of Vienna, focusing on cutaneous immunobiology of chronic inflammatory skin diseases and primary cutaneous lymphomas, to better understand how individual immune cells orchestrate skin inflammation in benign and malignant conditions. In 2021, he moved back to New York to join the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as Associate Professor of Dermatology and Director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic at the The Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology. As a clinician scientist with a strong interest in skin immunology, he is seeing patients suffering from primary cutaneous immune cell malignancies, and also has a general interest in chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis and vitiligo. He is also heading a translational research group aiming at a better understanding of the immunobiology in cutaneous lymphomas, atopic dermatitis and vitiligo, and to develop better treatment modalities for this patient population.
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Alexa B. Kimball, MD, MPH
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2025 ASA Research Achievement Award in Inflammatory Skin DiseasesDr. Kimball is CEO and President of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a multi-specialty group that employs 2400 physicians and providers who practice in the Boston area, two-thirds of whom are Harvard Medical School faculty. Dr. Kimball’s research focus is psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa. She has published over 380 papers, conducted over 150 clinical trials, authored 2 patents and multiple licensing agreements.
Dr. Kimball is the author of "100 Questions and Answers about Psoriasis" (available in Spanish, Greek, and Korean), "Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Your Questions, Expert Answers," and editor of "Dermatologic Diseases and Cumulative Life Course Impairment." Awards include Modern Health Care's 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives, Mentor of the Year from the Women's Dermatologic Society, Outstanding Physician-Clinician Award from the National Psoriasis Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Psoriasis Foundation and the Joseph B. Martin Dean's Leadership Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty at Harvard Medical School. She received her MD from the Yale School of Medicine, her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a bachelor's degree in molecular biology and public and international affairs from Princeton University. She completed an internship in medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, her residency in dermatology at Stanford University Medical Center and a clinical research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.
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