Victoria Fang
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dermatology
Department: Dermatology
Contact information
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2156622737
Education:
BA
Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2011.
Ph.D.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2017.
MD
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2019.
BA
Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2011.
Ph.D.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2017.
MD
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2019.
Post-Graduate Training
Internal Medicine Internship, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, 2019-2020.
Dermatology Residency, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Dermatology, 2020-2023.
Dermatology Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with Dr. John Wherry, University of Pennsylvania, 2022-2026.
Internal Medicine Internship, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, 2019-2020.
Dermatology Residency, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Dermatology, 2020-2023.
Dermatology Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with Dr. John Wherry, University of Pennsylvania, 2022-2026.
Certifications
American Academy of Dermatology, Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2023.
Permanent linkAmerican Academy of Dermatology, Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2023.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Hidradenitis suppurativa (medical and surgical treatments)General dermatology
Description of Research Expertise
ImmunologySpatial imaging, Spatial transcriptomics, and bioinformatics
Single cell sequencing
High parameter spectral flow cytometry
Hidradenitis suppurativa
T cells
Tertiary lymphoid structures
Research protocols for prospective sample collection
Selected Publications
Radhika Gupta, Rishi Suresh, Matthew Lee, Jeffrey L. Roberson, Lillias H. Maguire, Victoria Fang: Mature Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Pilonidal Sinus Disease. JID Innovations April 2026.Fang V, Gupta R, Micheletti RG.: Managing Hidradenitis Suppurativa with Biologics and Small Molecule Inhibitors. Dermatol Clin 2025.
Fang V, Lee M, Zellmer A…Payne A, Oldridge D, Wherry EJ. : "Spatial mapping of hidradenitis suppurativa lesions at single-cell resolution" from Abstracts of the 9th Annual Symposium on Hidradenitis Suppurativa Advances 2024. Dermatology and Therapy 15(3): 483-562, March 2025.
Radhika Gupta, Laura Cesar, Robert Micheletti, Victoria Fang: Patient-reported outcomes of glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists on hidradenitis suppurativa severity. JAAD International 2025.
Yu WW, Barrett JNP, Tong J, Lin MJ, Marohn M, Devlin JC, Herrera A, Remark J, Levine J, Liu PK, Fang V, Zellmer AM, Oldridge DA, Wherry EJ, Lin JR, Chen JY, Sorger P, Santagata S, Krueger JG, Ruggles KV, Wang F, Su C, Koralov SB, Wang J, Chiu ES, Lu CP.: Skin immune-mesenchymal interplay within tertiary lymphoid structures promotes autoimmune pathogenesis in hidradenitis suppurativa. Immunity 57: 2827-2842, Dec 2024.
Lee M, Fang V, Vanguri R, Zellmer A, Baxter A, Kim D, Oldridge D, Wherry E.J. : A multi-modal image pipeline for automated generation of large, labeled H&E image datasets. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023.
Mintz MA, Jariwala N, Fang V, Coromilas A, Rosenbach M.: Livedo reticularis on bilateral knees after the third dose of messenger RNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. JAAD Int. 7: 52-53, June 2022.
Okuniewska M, Fang V, Baeyens A, Raghavan V, Lee JY, Littman DR, Schwab SR.: SPNS2 enables T cell egress from lymph nodes during an immune response. Cell Rep 36: 109368, Jul 2021.
Fang V, Chaluvadi VS, Ramos-Perez WD, Mendoza A, Baeyens A, Rivera R, Chun J, Cammer M, Schwab SR.: Gradients of the signaling lipid S1P in lymph nodes position natural killer cells and regulate their interferon-γ response. Nat Immunol 2017.
Sano T, Kageyama T, Fang V, Kedmi R, Martinez CS, Talbot J, Chen A, Cabrera I, Gorshko O, Kurakake R, Yang Y, Ng C, Schwab SR, Littman DR.: Redundant cytokine requirement for intestinal microbiota-induced Th17 cell differentiation in draining lymph nodes. Cell Rep 36: 109608, Aug 2021.
Mendoza A, Fang V, Chen C, Serasinghe M, Verma A, Muller J, Chaluvadi VS, Dustin ML, Hla T, Elemento O, Chipuk JE, Schwab SR.: Lymphatic endothelial S1P promotes mitochondrial function and survival in naive T cells. Nature 546: 158-161, Jun 2017.
Dumoulin B, Levinsohn J, Klötzer KA, Li C, Mao L, Ha E, Mohandes S, Nguyen T, Paruzzo L, Hirohama D, Fang V, Bhoj VG, Parhiz H, Andrade-Silva M, Abedini A, Bergeson A, Traum D, May MJ, Kaestner KH, Ruella M, McAllister FE, Hakimi AA, Li M, Palmer M, Wherry EJ, Hunter CA, Cancro MP; TRIDENT consortium; Susztak K: Spatial atlas of diabetic kidney disease reveals a B cell-rich subgroup. Nature April 2026.