Rate My Professor Mayumi Fujita

Mayumi Fujita, MD, PhD, is Professor of Dermatology and Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where she also serves as Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Dermatology and Principal Investigator of the Fujita Lab. She earned her MD from Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine in Kyoto, Japan, in 1983, completing her initial internship and residency there in 1986. Fujita obtained her PhD in immunology from Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine in 1992. She conducted postdoctoral research in tumor biology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Following a competitive dermatology residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, completed in 2002, she joined the faculty of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus as the first recruit by Department Chair David Norris, MD. She works as a physician-scientist at the CU Cancer Center and has trained more than 100 students and fellows in her laboratory over the years. Fujita was awarded tenure in the Department of Dermatology in 2015.