Elizabeth A. Grice, PhD, is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Departments of Dermatology and Microbiology (secondary) at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Grice began her scientific training as an undergraduate at Luther College, then received a PhD in Human Genetics from Johns Hopkins University in 2006. Dr. Grice then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the NIH, where her pioneering work revealed the vast topographic and temporal diversity of the healthy human skin microbiome. At that time, she developed a scientific interest in microbial roles in impaired wound healing, and received an NIH K99-R00 Pathway to Independence Award to investigate microbial-host interactions in diabetic wound healing. Since 2012, Dr. Grice has led a research group of multi-disciplinary scientists and trainees, integrating genomics, microbiology, skin biology, and bioinformatics to investigate the skin microbiome and its roles in cutaneous barrier function, tissue repair, and colonization resistance to pathogens. A major focus of the laboratory is unraveling the microbial contributions to impaired healing and clinical outcomes in diabetic foot ulcers. Dr. Grice’s research is funded by grants from the NIH, the Burroughs Welcome Fund, and the Dermatology Foundation. Dr. Grice has received numerous awards for her work, including the Penn Medicine Michael S. Brown New Investigator Award, the Penn One Health Award, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award, and the Sun Pharma Research Award from the Dermatology Foundation. Dr. Grice is Co-Director of the NIAMS T32-funded Penn Dermatology Research Training Program and Associate Director of the NIAMS P30-funded Penn Skin Biology and Disease Resource-based Center (SBDRC). She serves on the Board of Directors of the Wound Healing Society; the editorial boards of Genome Research, Microbiome, and Experimental Dermatology; and is a standing member of the NIH Arthritis, Connective Tissue, Skin (ACTS) study section.