- Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
Dr. Ian D. Odell is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Yale School of Medicine and Dermatology Director of the Adult Primary Care Center. He is a board-certified dermatologist and physician-scientist whose clinical practice encompasses a broad range of dermatologic conditions, including autoimmune diseases such as lupus and scleroderma, skin cancer, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and blistering skin diseases.
Dr. Odell’s laboratory research focuses on the role of the immune system in scleroderma (systemic sclerosis) and chronic graft-versus-host disease – two immune-mediated processes that cause progressive tightening of the skin. His recent work has identified the EGFR-STAT1 pathway as a driver of fibrosis initiation in fibroinflammatory skin diseases, and has demonstrated that sclerotic graft-versus-host disease and scleroderma share dysregulated gene expression patterns that can be ameliorated by an EREG therapeutic antibody – findings with direct implications for the development of targeted therapies for these conditions.