Penn Medicine Provider
Dermatology
John T. Seykora, MD, PhD
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Dermatology Perelman

About me

  • Professor of Dermatology

Dr. Seykora reads dermatopathology at HUP, but does not schedule appointments with patients.

Education and training

  • Medical School: NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Seykora is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Natale CA, Mercado S, Zhuang R, Aguirre-Portolés C, Olayide I, Arnatt CK, Seykora JT, Garyantes TK, Luke W, Ridky TW. An enantiomerically pure agonist of the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor suitable for clinical development. , Cancer Res Commun. : 2025


Zhu X, Xu M, Portal C, Lin Y, Ferdinand A, Peng T, Morrisey EE, Dlugosz AA, Castellano JM, Lee V, Seykora JT, Wong SY, Iomini C, Millar SE. Identification of Meibomian gland stem cell populations and mechanisms of aging. , Nat Commun.: 2025


Nguyen PTT, Shiue M, Kuprasertkul N, Costa-Pinheiro P, Izzo LT, Pinheiro LV, Affronti HA, Gugiu G, Ghaisas S, Liu JY, Harris JC, Bradley CW, Seykora JT, Yang X, Kambayashi T, Mesaros C, Capell BC, Wellen KE. Acetyl-CoA synthesis in the skin is a key determinant of systemic lipid homeostasis. , Cell Rep.: 2025


Hoffman CL, Bharathan NK, Shibata Y, Giang W, Gudjonsson JE, Seykora JT, Prouty SM, Stahley SN, Payne AS, Kowalczyk AP. Pemphigus Vulgaris Autoantibodies Induce an Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response. , J Invest Dermatol.: 2025


Yu H, Nagi SS, Usoskin D, Hu Y, Kupari J, Bouchatta O, Yan H, Cranfill SL, Gautam M, Su Y, Lu Y, Wymer J, Glanz M, Albrecht P, Song H, Ming GL, Prouty S, Seykora J, Wu H, Ma M, Marshall A, Rice FL, Li M, Olausson H, Ernfors P, Luo W Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation , Nat Neurosci: 2024


Grice EA, Brennan-Crispi D, Rodriguez N, Margolis DJ, Seykora JT, Cotsarelis G, Taylor SC, Shuda J. Penn Academy for Skin Health (PASH): An Experiential Pipeline Program in Skin Biology and Dermatology for High-School Students. , J Invest Dermatol.: 2024


Abbott JJ, Jiang AJ, Godse R, Ahmed S, Senft SC, Wilson MA, Cohen JV, Mitchell TC, Ogunleye TA, Higgins HW 2nd, Shin TM, Miller CJ, Roth JJ, Priore SF, Castelo-Soccio L, Elenitsas R, Seykora JT, Nathanson KL, Chu EY Inherited Basaloid Neoplasms Associated With SUFU Pathogenic Variants , JAMA Dermatol. : 2024


Sati S, Huang J, Kersh AE, Jones P, Ahart O, Murphy C, Prouty SM, Hedberg ML, Jain V, Gregory SG, Leung DH, Seykora JT, Rosenbach M, Leung TH Recruitment of CXCR4+ type 1 innate lymphoid cells distinguishes sarcoidosis from other skin granulomatous diseases , J Clin Invest.: 2024


Maeno H, Suzuki-Horiuchi Y, Funakoshi A, Chumsakul O, Sato Y, Ishii T, Seykora JT miR-4521-A novel biomarker for human lentigos , Exp Dermatol. 2024 , 33(6): 2024


Harris JC, Prouty SM, Nelson MA, Sung DC, Nelson AM, Seykora JT, Kambayashi T, Grice EA. Laser Capture Microdissection-based RNAseq for Profiling Mouse and Human Sebaceous Gland Transcriptomes. , J Invest Dermatol, 144: 2024


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