The LEO Foundation Award 2025 – Region Americas

Grantee: Christoph Ellebrecht, Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology and the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Amount: USD 100,000

Grant category: LEO Foundation Awards

Year: 2025

Geography: USA

Dr. Christoph Ellebrecht is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology and the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the University of Pennsylvania.

He received the prestigious LEO Foundation Award 2025 in Region Americas during the SID annual meeting in San Diego. The award recognizes Dr. Christoph Ellebrecht for his scientific contributions to our understanding of T cell biology in the skin and its diseases.

The LEO Foundation Award – worth USD 100,000 – recognizes outstanding young researchers and scientists from around the world whose work represents an extraordinary contribution to skin research and has the potential to pave the way for new and improved treatments for skin diseases.

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