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
Bryan Sun, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of California San Diego. He received his MD and PhD at Harvard Medical School with a research thesis focused on the biological roles of non-coding RNAs in the process of mammalian X-chromosome inactivation. He completed his residency in dermatology and post-doctoral training at Stanford University.
Dr. Sun is a practicing dermatologist and director of a genetic skin disease clinic where he cares for patients with neurofibromatosis, ichthyoses, cancer susceptibility syndromes, and other genetic skin disorders. His research laboratory focuses broadly on understanding genomic regulators that control skin development, with particular interest in functional elements of the non-protein coding genome that contribute to disease.