Corporate Communications

Press Release

28 August 2002
OCCUPATIONAL DERMATOLOGY EXPERT VISITS UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD

Professor Nanna Schürer visited the University of Bradford recently to give a lecture on the importance of albumin in the human skin.

Professor Schürer, who specialises in occupational dermatology at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, was a guest of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences.

In her lecture Professor Schürer 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 Schürer'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 Schürer's group in Germany and Professor Karin Schallreuter's team in Bradford.

• A photograph of Professor Nanna Schürer is available from the Press Office - see contact details below.

For further media information and photographs, please contact Rachael Ellis in Corporate Communications on (01274) 233084/0787 9437986 or Claire Holmes on (01274) 233089. Alternatively, e-mail press@bradford.ac.uk or fax on (01274) 236280.

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