Jean Krutmann MD

Jean Krutmann is Professor of Dermatology and Environmental Medicine and Director of the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Furthermore, he is a coordinator of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Healthy Aging” (a strategic alliance of 23 Leibniz institutes). His research is in the field of dermatotoxicology and immunodermatology with special emphasis on environmentally-induced skin diseases and skin aging. 

He is the author or co-author of more than 200 papers. He is the recipient of the International Arnold-Rikli Award, the Albert Fleckenstein Award, the Paul Gerson Unna Award, the Oscar Gans Award, the C.E.R.I.E.S.Research Support Award, and the Dermopharmacy Innovation Award. He is a visiting and adjunct professor of dermatology at Nagoya City University, Japan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and the University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA. He is a member of the National Academy of Science of Germany and Xu Guang Qi Lecturer, at the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China.