Wright State University
Wright State University
A native of Wapakoneta, Ohio, Dr. Jeffrey Travers completed his BS, MD and PhD in pharmacology at The Ohio State University. He pursued his dermatology residency and immunodermatology fellowship at the University of Colorado and National Jewish Medical Center in Denver. Dr. Travers began his academic career at Indiana University in 1995 and served as Chair of the IU Department of Dermatology for nine years. In 2015, he came to Wright State University to chair the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology and serve as Professor of Dermatology. Dr. Travers has been a VA staff physician and VA investigator since 2004. His laboratory and translational studies have garnered approximately ~$30M in extramural funding from sources including the NIH and VA, and he has authored approximately 200 peer-reviewed publications. His research group studies mechanisms of photocarcinogenesis and how environmental stressors such as thermal burn injuries and ultraviolet B radiation can generate systemic responses. In particular, Dr. Travers has been a part of a group including Dr. Dan Spandau from Indiana University who has described a novel mechanism linking the increased risk of actinic neoplasia in geriatric skin to fibroblast senescence and lack of the critical growth factor insulin-like growth factor-1.
Skin Cancer Prevention and the IGF pathway
Thursday, May 7, 2026
10:09 AM - 10:19 AM EDT