8th World Congress For Hair Research - Korea (2014)

[Desmond84]

VERY EXCITING NEWS

Hey guys, the abstract titles for this year's Hair congress just got announced and some of these talks look absolutely ground breaking. Here's the TOP SIX presentations that I picked out which show 6 different research teams cracking the DP culturing problems, while another team has found what makes the DP cells in the MPB zone so different to the permanent zone. It's also interesting to note that these 6 teams are NOT part of the Chinese or Taiwanese teams we already knew about.

It seems that this beast is about to be cracked I will post more information once more information is published. Science is finally giving us the answers we were waiting for

Here are the titles:

1) P032: GENOME-WIDE EXPRESSION PROFILE ANLYSIS OF 3D CULTURED DERMAL PAPILLA CELLS FROM ANDROGENIC ALOPECIA PATIENTS
Weixin Fan

2) P081 (WS3): DERMAL-EPIDERMAL INTERACTIONS IN 3D CULTURE RESTORE MARKERS OF DERMAL PAPILLA INDUCTIVITY
Aaron Gardner

3) P082 (WS3): 3D MICRO HAIR FOLLICLE CULTURE IN A DYNAMIC CHIP BIOREACTOR
Beren Atac

4) P202 (SY10): REPROGRAMMING REGULAR SKIN FIBROBLASTS INTO HAIR INDUCING DERMAL PAPILLA CELLS
Carlos Clavel

5) P221 (FC6): ENHANCING EXPRESSION OF HAIR INDUCTION MARKERS IN HUMAN DERMAL PAPILLA CELLS
ARP Sari

6) P228 (SY3): OPTIMIZED PREPARATION OF DERMAL PAPILLA CELL (DP) AND DERMAL SHEATH CELL (DS) CONSTRUCT FOR HAIR REGENERATION
Koji Kanayama

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On a side note, the third title points out to growing hair germs (microtissues) in a bioreactor to maturations prior to transplantation. Sounds very cool!

What a great year so far A big thumbs up to all these researchers working towards a final cure.

[BoSox]

Big thanks to you Des for keeping us updated, and also thanks to those working on a cure. More competition is good for us. Hair loss, your days are numbered.

[BoSox]

Also Desmond, in your opinion does this open up new doors for treatments for thinning while we wait for the cure to be out?

[Arashi]

Thanks for the info Desmond and indeed what a great year 2014 is already ! By the way, many people thought of 2013 as a shitty year and I can of course understand why, given the disppointments from the companies out there, BUT I still think it was a great year too: if we look back in several years when we all have our hair back, we will still see Jahoda's breakthrough in 2013 as THE main event that got us there ! It marked the beginning of the end of hairloss !

[hellouser]

It's also interesting to note that these 6 teams are NOT part of the Chinese or Taiwanese teams we already knew about.

A couple things:

a) It'll be interesting to see what, if any, news Dr. Jahoda has for us incorporating China's developments!
b) The congress is still some time away, a LOT can happen in that time with recent developments and there's probably more that we don't know.

[hosney7]

Oh! Korea is my country

but unfoutunately jeju island is quite far from my home(Seoul)

and I'm now in my univ semester that I can't attend the conference

however I'll contact with my doctor in charge who had his presentation

at the ISHRS Sanfransisco last year (also he is one of consultants of Replicel )

to get some information of the congress and will post here


PS I'm really sorry, English is not my mother tongue that my grammer is not good

[HairBane]

[ytterligare]

Hell yeah

[Scientalk56]

Amazing!
I prefer to hear about new findings rather than new companies, companies come and go, findings stay forever!

[StinkySmurf]

Cool Stuff Desmond! I wonder if #4 is iPS or are there other ways to reprogram a cell?

[hairy]

Great find Desmond! Wish I could go. Are you planning to attend one of these?

[hellouser]

Desmond, do you have a source link to the 6 teams working on hair loss solutions you just posted about? Thanks!

Here's the current program schedule at the congress:



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[Tenma]

Pretty cool! i wonder if replicel is benefiting already from some of the research that will be presented.

[hellouser]

Pretty cool! i wonder if replicel is benefiting already from some of the research that will be presented.

If they did and changed methods, they'd have to start the trials all over again. Doesn't matter much though, their next trials are, Phase II trials are supposed to take THREE years and there's no word if they've even started yet. Pretty outrageous. You have to wonder though, what the hell Replicel has been doing for the last 1-2 years?

[Tenma]

If they did and changed methods, they'd have to start the trials all over again. Doesn't matter much though, their next trials are, Phase II trials are supposed to take THREE years and there's no word if they've even started yet. Pretty outrageous. You have to wonder though, what the hell Replicel has been doing for the last 1-2 years?

Yeah is kind of a mystery replicel. i prefer them restarting trials if they have to rather than continuing with their current protocol and achieve disappointing results like aderans