7th World Congress for Hair Research (2013)

[hellouser]

Believe me dude, this sh*t pisses me off more than anything. There are so many aspects of the hair loss industry that I really just cannot stand. Like why all of these scientists test on mice until the cows come home yet never do anything to regrow hair on humans. Or why all of the hair transplant doctors perform only hair transplants (and make ridiculous amounts of money) and don't do a damn thing to innovate and create better options. Or why a form of hair cloning has already been achieved yet no one acknowledges it or does anything to try to duplicate her procedure and results. Check out this article: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=a6OdEa5VFNV8.

Personally, I have no choice other than to be optimistic about new treatments like Histogen, Aderans, or Replicel because I just don't even want to fathom liviing the rest of my life with hair loss. And hell, I'd even bet that there are other treatments that could really help to regrow hair (an I mean simple autologous treatments) yet they are not being explored because people are making too much money off of today's current limited treatments.

That article you posted was 4 years ago. FOUR. Another disappointment. I think society gets too much of a kick out of balding men to let them even the playing field. And thats still nothing compared to the infinite stream of money the scumbags behind merck and other cosmetics shills are sucking out of every desperate man.

We should try to take advantage of something like http://www.medstartr.com/

30 fvcking years without a legit treatment. What a god damn failure society is, and more so for continually mocking bald men. I can't believe we spend an overwhelming amount of money on taxes for military, funding assholes to become hired assassins and blow the fvck out of little brown kids in nations we dont belong in, but when it comes to HEALTH.... the only advancemenets we've made are fvcking PILLS that only KEEP us sick.

Disgusting.

[StayThick]

On the money as usual Hellouser. Agree 100% with your comments.

[Desmond84]

Hey guys,

Sorry for confusing everyone and getting everyone down but what I was saying was Dr Jahoda started working on DP cells back in 1980's. The study I posted is what they did in 2013 NOT 30 years ago! It's state of the art technology! It wasa published only a few weeks ago and he's presenting it for the first time at the Hair Research Congress!

P.S. If Aderans is smart, they might ask him to join their team and do a quick Phase 2 trial with this technique to see what are the outcomes! If so, 2016 release would still be a possibility!

[hellouser]

I got a better idea; start a campaign on the boycott of Finasteride. Merck is heavily responsible for the lack of treatments, for 20 years men have used this piece of shit drug without pushing for a PROPER solution.

[jman91]

spencers tone in the show yesterday says it all, there most likely won't be anything too exiting being revealed in the 2013 Edinburgh conference

[stayhopeful]

spencers tone in the show yesterday says it all, there most likely won't be anything too exiting being revealed in the 2013 Edinburgh conference

What did he say??

[ANW]

does someone have a link to the Jahoda study ?

[jman91]

What did he say??

he said from what he knows there will most likely not be anything groundbreaking being presented.

[Artista]

Jman91, Don't read into whatever tone Spencer may or may not have had. Spencer Kobren has always been quite objective on his discussions of treatments and of hair loss possibilities.
Spence knows to be very impartial on TBT and here on the BTT .
Keep a positive outlook Jman, we may be very surprised this year.
Hang in there.

[Desmond84]

Hey guys,

Here's the Final Phase 1/2 results for Histogen! Here's what they will be presenting at the "International Investigative Dermatology Congress":

Embryonic-like cell-secreted proteins induce hair growth in a phase I/II trial in male pattern baldness

GK Naughton,1 M Zimber,1 J Peralta-Arambulo,2 T Reyes-Cacas,3 M Hubka,1 D Ehrlich1 and J Mansbridge

Histogen, Inc., San Diego, CA, 2Asian Hair Restoration Center, Pasig City, Philippines and 3Marc Medical Group, Manila, Philippines

A Phase I/II clinical trial was performed to study the safety and efficacy of a bioengineered human cell-derived formulation, termed Hair Stimulating Complex (HSC), in stimulating hair growth in subjects with male pattern baldness. HSC contains naturally secreted growth factors known to be important in hair growth, including Follistatin, KGF, and VEGF.

The clinical study was a double-blind, randomized, two center trial in 56 subjects. All subjects tolerated the eight 0.1cc intradermal injections at baseline and 6 weeks well, and no signs of an adverse reaction were reported. Blood and urine samples taken before and after each injection set showed no liver, kidney, or bone marrow toxicity. Trichoscan image analysis of treated sites were taken at baseline, and 12, 24, 36, and 48weeks.

At the 12 week time point significant improvements in total (p=0.0013), terminal (p=0.0135) and vellus (p=0.033) hair growth over baseline was seen as was an increase in cumulative thickness density (p=0026). The primary efficacy endpoint of increased terminal hair at 12 weeks was met, with a 19.5% increase seen, a 49.5% increase over the same endpoint in our proof-of-concept trial. In addition, unlike currently approved products, HSC induced hair growth in the temporal recession as well as vertex and mid scalp regions, and was highly effective in men over 40 years of age. At the 48 week time point there continued to be a significant increase in total hairs over baseline (p=0.028). These results clearly demonstrate the safety and efficacy of intradermal injections of HSC in subjects with androgenetic alopecia.

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[rdawg]

Where'd you get that??

Pictures?

[Artista]

Des....great reporting! Thanks

[john2399]

Good news. Desmond your amazing at finding news. Terminal growth is awesome. If pictures back this up, we got a solid treatment coming.

[Desmond84]

The abstracts for the presentations are now published! Here's the link:

http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v133/n1s/full/jid201397a.html

Search for "Histogen" on this page to find the abstract

Unfortunately, no pictures are posted YET! That will be presented at the conference

[stayhopeful]

Desmond,
I get so excited every time I see you make a fresh post. I honeslty want to jump for joy.. I was just being a depressed idiot in my room. I can't tell you how badly I need tangible good news...

What do you guys think about this??? 20 percent regrowth... What is propexia and minoxidil? Do you think this solves the problem for a NW 2/3 in conjunction with scarless FUE?