ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2026
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
Anna Eisenstein, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Yale School of Medicine and a board-certified dermatologist. She completed undergraduate studies at Middlebury College, received her MD and PhD from Boston University School of Medicine and completed dermatology residency and post-doctoral training at the Yale School of Medicine. During her post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Andrew Wang, MD, PhD, Dr. Eisenstein established a novel mechanism of action of commonly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (Eisenstein et al. Immunity, 2022) and has shown how these and other industrial xenobiotics play a role in the development of allergic disease. She also identified a new paradigm in allergy biology, termed remote priming, whereby antigen and adjuvant signals are spatially separated (Science Immunology, 2025). In clinical practice, she specializes in the care of individuals with chronic inflammatory skin diseases, primarily hidradenitis suppurativa, an understudied debilitating skin condition with limited treatment options, and is the Director of the Hidradenitis Suppurativa clinic at Yale. Dr. Eisenstein is interested in understanding how environmental factors influence inflammatory skin diseases like atopic dermatitis and hidradenitis suppurativa. Dr. Eisenstein’s research has been supported by Career Development Awards from the Dermatology Foundation and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).