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Tung-Tien Sun, Ph.D.
Rudolf L. Baer Professor of Dermatology
and Professor of Pharmacology and Urology

Contact Information
  • Phone:
212-263-5685
  • Fax:
212-263-8561
Education and Training
  • 1963-1967
B.S.,  Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 1969-1974 
Ph.D.,  Biological Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA
  • 1974-1978 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Howard Green at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Tung-Tien Sun

Academic Appointments

  • 1978-1981
Assistant Professor, Departments of Dermatology and Cell Biology & Anatomy, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
  • 1981-1982
Associate Professor, Departments of Cell Biology, Dermatology & Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
  • 1982-1986
Associate Professor, Departments of Dermatology & Pharmacology, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, NY
  • 1986-   
Professor, Departments of Dermatology and Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
  • 1990-
Rudolf L. Baer Professor and Director, Epithelial Biology Unit, Department of Dermatology, New York Univ. School of Medicine
  • 1992-
Adjunct Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1997-
Professor, Department of Urology, New York University School of Medicine

Membership and Honors:

  • 1986    Angus Lecturer, University of Toronto Medical School
  • 1986    Herman Pinkus Lecturer, American Academy of Dermatopathologists
  • 1987    Su-Chin Liu Memorial Lecturer, Stanford University Medical School
  • 1989    William Montagna Lecturer, Society of Investigative Dermatology
  • 1991    Susan Swerling Lecturer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
  • 1992    Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 1993    Alcon Award in Vision Research
  • 1998    Kihei Tanioku Lecturer, Japanese Society of Investigative Dermatology
  • 1999    Wu Jieping Award in Urological Research, Chinese Medical Association
  • 2001    Inaugural William W.Scott, Sr., Lecturer, Johns Hopkins Medical School
  • 2002    Member, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • 2003    Borden Lecturer, Joint Annual Meeting of the British Society of Cell Biology and
                 Developmental Biology, Warwick, UK

Teaching Activities:

  • 1979-1982
    Lecturer, Cell Biology, Histology and Dermatology Courses, Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
    • 1982-
    Lecturer, Cell Biology, Histology and Dermatology Courses, New York University Medical School.
    • 1984
    Course Director, Mechanisms of Epithelial Growth and Differentiation, Department of Pharmacology, New York University Medical School.
    • 1984-1985
    Head of a section of a Core Course for graduate students in the Molecular of Cellular Biology Program, NYU Medical School.
    • 1995-
    Lectures on experimental design (“Trust in authorities, risk assessment and experimental design”; given at over 25 universities and conferences including Annual Meetings of the Society of Investigative Dermatology and the British Society of Cell Biology; NYU Medical School, University of San Antonio and Galveston, Northwestern, Rutgers, M. D. Anderson Cancer School, Cornell Medical School, University of Queensland, and Mt Sinai Medical School).
    • 2001-
    Teaching a graduate course on Scientific Methods (consisting of a series of five lectures covering experimental design, critical analysis of the literature, scientific writing, oral presentation and scientific integrity) required for all first year graduate students at NYU Med. School.


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