The State of Vitiligo 2025: A Fast-Moving Field With Slow-Moving Funding (Ep. 57)
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The State of Vitiligo 2025: A Fast-Moving Field With Slow-Moving Funding (Ep. 57)
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In this closing 2025 episode, we unpack four decades of National Institute of Health (NIH) data, compare vitiligo’s budget to other autoimmune and skin diseases, and explain the “industry twist”: tiny public dollars helped build the science, while the commercial market is now booming.
We also look at the big paradox: vitiligo research helped spark major ideas in modern medicine (think immune pathways that later shaped blockbuster therapies), yet the shared infrastructure vitiligo now needs — US-based biobanks, registries, and longitudinal cohorts — remains fragmented. Meanwhile, the commercial side is moving fast, with a billion-dollar market and crowded pipelines.
Read the full report in two parts:
The Vitiligo Paradox – Common Disease, Rare Funding
Who Gets to Do Vitiligo Science?