title: [Psoriasis taking center stage].
abstract: Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory, T cell-mediated auto-immune disease mainly affecting skin and joints. It is a multisystem disease associated with a multitude of co-morbidities and thus, has become increasingly important for all medical fields, beyond dermatology and rheumatology. Psoriasis has also become more and more important as a model disease for scientist working on chronic inflammation and autoimmunity. And psoriasis has become increasingly relevant as a first-choice disease for proof of concept studies investigating the efficacy of newer pathogenesis-based treatments.
authors.affiliation: Centre de psoriasis Service de dermatologie CHUV, Lausanne. curdin.conrad@chuv.ch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Conrad
authors.forename: A-K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Lapointe
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy