Vincent Piguet#
| Membership Number: | 4521 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
| Homepage(s): | https://immunology.utoronto.ca/faculty/vincent-piguet |
| ORCID: | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6079-4517 |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/DrVincentPiguet |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 Professor and Department Division Director, Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
- 2015 - 2018 Director, Division of Infection & Immunity. 190 FTE + 99PhD/MD Students. Cardiff University, School of Medicine
- 2011 - 2015 Director, Institute of Infection & Immunity. 170 FTE + 70 PhD/MD Students. Cardiff University, School of Medicine
- 2010 Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Cardiff University
- 2010 Consultant Dermatologist at the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Wales
- 2010 Consultant Dermatologist - University Hospital of Geneva, Department of Dermatology
- 2009 - 2010 Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University Hospital of Geneva
- 2003 - 2009 Honorary Consultant Dermatologist - Dermatology and Venereology Department University Hospital of Geneva
- 2003 - 2009 Professeur Adjoint Suppléant “Affilié Clinique”, University Geneva Medical School
- 2001 - 2003 Snr Specialist Registrar Clinician-researcher Department of Dermatology & Venereology, University Hospital Geneva
- 1999 - 2001 Specialist Registrar (SpR) post, Department of Dermatology & Venereology, University Hospital of Geneva
- 1995-1998 MD-PhD Scholarship (SNF)
Fields of Scholarship
- HIV and mucosal transmission
- Dermatology
- Psoriasis
- Vaccination
- Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Dendritic cells and their subsets
Honours and Awards
- 2016 President-Elect of European Dermatology Forum
- 2015 Executive Board Member and Treasurer of the European Dermatology Forum
- 2014 ACCEA (NHS Bronze Award) awarded by the Department of Health for outstanding services to medicine.
- 2014 Merit Award, Worshipful Livery Company of Wales, the society of arts and science in Wales.
- 2014 FRCP London
- 2014 Rudi Cormane Lecture, ESDR
- 2012 Honorary Professor of China Medical University
- 2010 President of the European Society for Dermatology Research
- 2007 - 2009 Appointed as Secretary-Treasurer of the European Society for Dermatology Research
- 2006 Human Frontier Science Program Grant Award. Infectious Synapse and Transmission of Disease
- 2006 Appointed as Executive Committee Board Member of the European Society for Dermatology Research
- 2005 Appointed as Board Member of the European Society for Dermatology Research
- 2004 Leenaards Prize for research “Global analysis of melanoma transcriptome for the development of new anti-cancer vaccines”
- 2003 Professor SNF position: “The Role of Dendritic Cells in HIV pathogenesis”
- 1998 Pfizer prize for research in infectious diseases: “HIV-1 Nef and Immune Evasion: Towards a better understanding of HIV”.
- 1996 - 1999 MD-PhD Grant from the Swiss National Foundation for Science (FNRS)
- 1995 - 1996 Scholarship and Member of Foundation for Talented Students, Zürich
- 1995 - 1996 Scholarship from Janggen-Pohn Foundation, St-Gallen
- 1989 Valedictorian
