David T Woodley

David T. Woodley is Professor and Chair of the Dermatology Department at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Trained at the University of North Carolina, he completed research fellowships at the University of Paris/Rothschild Institute and NIH. Woodley established the Phototherapy Unit at UNC, served as Vice Chair at Stanford University, and chaired Northwestern University's Dermatology Department before joining USC in 1999.

Woodley's research focuses on wound healing mechanisms, autoimmune blistering diseases, and collagen biology. His laboratory investigates extracellular heat shock proteins in wound repair and develops novel therapies for epidermolysis bullosa. He has maintained continuous NIH funding since 1982 and published over 165 scientific papers.

Clinical interests include autoimmune blistering diseases (pemphigus, bullous pemphigoid) and recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Woodley has pioneered gentamicin readthrough therapy for nonsense mutations and recombinant type VII collagen treatments.