September 2002
Research and Teaching

Guest Speaker at the department of Biomedical Sciences

Professor Nanna Schurer visited Bradford as a guest of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology to give a lecture to the Department of Biomedical Sciences on the importance of albumin in the human skin.

Professor Schurer specialises in occupational dermatology at the University of Osnabruck, Germany. In her lecture she described the outer layer of the human skin as a brick and mortar-like structure with the bricks made up of proteins (keratins) and the mortar of lipids. Both layers are critical to form an impermeable barrier against dehydration and environmental stress.

The Department's Professor Karin Schallreuter said: "Professor Schurer's speciality is the importance of the skin barrier function. She presented in a very dynamic way the difficult biochemical and molecular level and biological analysis of barrier formation."

The work is a continuation of her outstanding research with Professor Peer Elias at San Francisco Medical School, USA. A major collaboration is currently underway between Professor Schurer's group in Germany and Professor Karin Schallreuter's team in Bradford.

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