ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Ian Odell, MD, PhD, completed undergraduate education at Cornell University followed by MD and PhD degrees at the University of Vermont. He completed medical residency in dermatology and post-doctoral research under the mentorship of Richard Flavell, PhD, FRS at Yale University, where he was appointed to Assistant Professor in the department of dermatology. Dr. Odell's main research interests involve understanding the cellular processes that drive human fibrotic diseases and development of novel therapeutics. In his post-doctoral and young faculty work, Dr. Odell’s studies focused on translational and mouse experiments to understand how immune cells regulate the pathogenesis of fibrosis in patients with scleroderma. In his principal project, Dr. Odell identified a multicellular signaling circuit that is activated in scleroderma skin and lung fibrosis. Dr. Odell’s scientific expertise in scleroderma is paired by his clinical activities, where he has a dedicated outpatient fibrosis clinic, is the dermatology leader of the Yale Scleroderma Program, and helps direct the photopheresis unit that includes treatment of patients with scleroderma and chronic GvHD.