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

[Tenma]

I think people should just forget about those companies (replicel, aderans, histogen). They proven of no use. Others cracked it and others will bring it to market.

I agree that should be the case with histogen and aderans, but last year replicel surprisingly received good backup and money from a big corporation.

Maybe they have something promising.

[huawei]

Sauna or later we will.

[Arashi]

I think people should just forget about those companies (replicel, aderans, histogen). They proven of no use. Others cracked it and others will bring it to market.

[HairBane]

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

I think with replicel's current work, the best we can hope for is that they improve efficacy in their dose escalating trials, maybe getting to around 20% regrowth or something. One thing that would be great is if the dermal sheath cup cells they use migrate to local follicles and provide some dht protection, so effectively it would be a long term preventative measure at least. I've seen hints of that mode of action in their videos, but obviously they haven't done long term studies yet to see if hair keeps falling out after a number off 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

[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]

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

[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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[hairy]

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

[StinkySmurf]

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

[Scientalk56]

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

[ytterligare]

Hell yeah

[HairBane]

[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

[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.