Dr. Chikako Nishigori is a Professor Emeritus/ visiting professor of Department of Dermatology at Kobe University. She was trained at Kyoto University and received her Ph.D. there. She joined Prof. Kripke’s laboratory at MD Anderson Cancer Center in 1995. Her research topics are photodermatology, genodermatoses, skin cancers, and pigment cell disorders. She served as president of Japanese Society for Photomedicine and Photobiology (2013-2018) and board of Japanese Dermatological Association (2016-2022) and officer of International Federation of Pigment Cell Society.