Dr. Louis D. Falo, Jr. is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Falo talks about his work on a potential COVID-19 vaccine here in Pittsburgh and takes you for a tour.
Dr. Falo is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, where he earned both his MD and PhD degrees with a research interest in skin immunology. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, a dermatology residency through the Harvard Dermatology Program and a fellowship in cancer research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, he was a member of the Harvard faculty in the Department of Dermatology and at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In addition to Dermatology, Dr. Falo has faculty appointments in the School of Engineering, Dept of Bioengineering, the Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.