Helen Young, MB, ChB, PhD, MRCP(UK), is Senior Lecturer in Dermatology at The University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist at Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester. She received her MB, ChB and PhD degrees from The University of Manchester. She trained in dermatology on the North West Regional Dermatology Training Scheme (Manchester) and at Harvard Medical School where she was a Research Fellow in Dermatology at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Her Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded Clinical Senior Lectureship was awarded in September 2008 and she is the first dermatologist to have received this award.

Her research interests include cutaneous angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, particularly as they relate to psoriasis pathogenesis. Her research has received many awards at national and international meetings including the British Association of Dermatologists, British Society for Investigative Dermatology and American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meetings. In 2006 she was presented with the Eugene M. Farber Research in Psoriasis Award by the American Society of Investigative Dermatology and she was awarded the Gold Medal for PhD Student of the Year at The University of Manchester. In 2007 she was The Medical Research Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal College of Physicians Young Investigator of the Year runner-up.