Wolf-Henning Boehncke earned his M.D. as a fellow of the German Scholarship Foundation in Kiel and Glasgow, and received his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda/USA. Following assignments at the University Hospitals in Kiel and Ulm he became Full Professor and Head of the Section of Allergy/Immunology at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Since 2012, he is the Chairman of the Dermatology Unit at Geneva University. Prof. Boehncke currently serves as the president of SPIN (Skin Inflammation and Psoriasis International Network). He is also an active member and past president of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) and an active member of the International Psoriasis Council (IPC). His research focuses on the pathogenesis of inflammation on which he published more than 350 peer-review articles, among them landmark papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Nature Medicine, and Nature, several of these were honoured by distinguished prizes.