SBDRC Director Dr. Elena Ezhkova and Associate Directors Dr. Sarah Millar and Emma Guttman lead the Administrative Core, which is responsible for management of the center and for handling administrative and financial support.

The Administrative Core organizes the SBDRC’s enrichment activities. It also facilitates interactions and collaborations between SBDRC members by organizing meetings, seminars, and annual retreats and supporting the NY Skin Club, a communal forum for skin researchers throughout New York City and neighboring regions.

SBDRC resource cores are designed to capitalize on Mount Sinai’s existing research expertise and institutionally-supported and highly innovative technological infrastructure. The cores consist of Resource Core B: “Modeling of Skin Disease for Mechanistic Analysis and Therapeutic Discovery”; Resource Core C: “Skin Genomics, Transcriptomics, and Epigenetics Core”; and Resource Core D: “Data Analysis and Integration Core.”

SBDRC is committed to enhancing the diversity of the skin research community. We leverage the Mount Sinai Laureates Program, which provides financial support for minority faculty recruitment. We also established the Mount Sinai Skin Scholars Program, which provides underserved minority East Harlem high school students with didactic teaching and hands-on laboratory experience in skin biology and disease research through a summer preparatory program and laboratory internships.