Professor Christine Bodemer

Professor Christine Bodemer (MD, PhD) is the Head of the Department of Dermatology at Necker Enfants-Malades Hospital in Paris (France) since 2011. She has been the Professor of Dermatology at the Paris Descartes-Sorbonne University since 2001.

Professor Bodemer obtained a doctorate in skin biology in 1997 and a qualification to lead a research's team in 2000. She is more particularly specialised in Pediatric Dermatology. One of her main areas of interest is rare skin diseases in children and mostly genodermatoses. She built and coordinated a national expert centre for genodermatoses (MAGEC, since 2005), the French national network (FIMARAD, since 2012) and the European network (ERN-SKIN) on rare diseases of the skin (since 2017).

Professor Bodemer is also a member of many scientific societies, associate editor of various journals, such as the British Journal of Dermatology, and one of the editors of the JID (Journal of Investigative of Dermatology). She has been president elected of the French Society of Pediatric Dermatology (2011-2016), secretary elected of the European Society of Pediatric Dermatology (ESPD, 2016-2018). She was a member of the board of directors of the International Society in Pediatric Dermatology (ISPD) (2015 to 2025). In addition, she has developed research and clinical networks in Dermatology, and research programs supported by national and international grants, leading to translational innovative therapies and obtained in the last years, 4 patents.

Professor Bodemer has published more than 450 original articles in international scientific journals. She received in 2020 the ILDS (the International League of Dermatology Societies) award with a certification of Appreciation for International Leadership and in 2022 the ESPD Master Award. In 2022, Professor Bodemer also organised the first World Congress for Rare skin Diseases (WCRSD) in Paris with great success, leading to the organisation of the 2nd WCRSD in 2024, and the 3rd now planned for 2026.

Professor Bodemer is an incredible advocate for the Rare Skin Diseases, and it is an honour for her to join our Research Alliance.