Elizabeth A. Grice, Ph.D. is Professor and Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in the Department of Dermatology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Microbiology, at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Grice’s scientific training began as an undergraduate at Luther College in Iowa, followed by a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from Johns Hopkins University in 2006. Her post-doctoral work at NIH/NHGRI pioneered sequencing-based approaches to profile the topographic and temporal diversity of the healthy human skin microbiome. Since 2012, Dr. Grice has led a research group of multi-disciplinary scientists and trainees at Penn to investigate roles of the skin microbiota in health and disease. Dr. Grice is Director and PI of the Penn Skin Biology and Disease Resource Center (SBDRC) and Co-Director of the Penn Dermatology Research Training Program. At the graduate education level, she serves as Vice Chair of the Microbiology, Virology, and Parasitology Ph.D. Program. Dr. Grice is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of Investigative Dermatology. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Sandra J. Lazarus endowed Associate Professorship, Penn Medicine Michael S. Brown New Investigator Award, the Penn One Health Award, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund PaTH Award, and the Sun Pharma Research Award from the Dermatology Foundation.