US government owned patent on hair follicle neogensis

[Renee]

To be honest I don't believe a viable treatment will come from topical but rather a cell based treatment, but who knows. Few days ago nobody even knew about the us military research and these clnical trials. The take away here is that there is probably more research and even clinical trials going on here in the US and abroad that no one knows about.

[Renee]

Any luck in contacting the researcher on the patent?

Here is the contact info: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20814

Administrative Assistant
Felicia Ballard (link sends e-mail)
Phone: (301) 295-9802

[JayM]

Yeh I got the lead scientists email but I had no idea what to even ask or write. If you guys wanted to write a list of what I should say I dont mind emailing.

[lacazette]

Hey guys, I emailed the lead scientist the other day, but no answer . I will try the other two aswell. I doubt we'll have any answers, but do it too if you have little time, we never know and one of us could be lucky

I will try to mail Wake forest too, and even the others military medical institutions hehe

[Slam1523]

To be honest I don't believe a viable treatment will come from topical but rather a cell based treatment, but who knows. Few days ago nobody even knew about the us military research and these clnical trials. The take away here is that there is probably more research and even clinical trials going on here in the US and abroad that no one knows about.

No doubt, and that's why the I think people saying the cliche 5 years away comment is dumb... Nobody knows how far some companies are currently into the study of their concept... We can hope I'm with you, but I'm just saying we have to stay realistic...

[burtandernie]

There is so much stuff on the way I am more certain now there will be something new in the next 2-3 years. If you can keep what you have or manage that timeline I think your in very good shape. Although If a new treatment came out tomorrow I personally would wait longer because its gonna be crazy expensive, and to see what happens once it hits the wild. Im not someone that rushes into new things as a guinea pig.

[It's2014ComeOnAlready]

There is so much stuff on the way I am more certain now there will be something new in the next 2-3 years. If you can keep what you have or manage that timeline I think your in very good shape. Although If a new treatment came out tomorrow I personally would wait longer because its gonna be crazy expensive, and to see what happens once it hits the wild. Im not someone that rushes into new things as a guinea pig.

Worst comes to worst, fly to Japan in 2 years and get replicel if no other alternatives come out before then. In my case, it would be well worth not having to take fin. I would gladly pay 10K-30K to be done with it, in a very "shut up and take my money," sort of fashion.

[Renee]

Any response from the researcher? There was a number to his assistant, can somebody call? We should ask if they have tried the cell injection procedure in humans? Were they able to maintain gene expression? Did they have any problems with angling? Etc.

[jpar]

like ur name, its so ironic, we've created glow in the dark pigs, we've put man on the moon, snapshots of pluto, driverless cars, artificial intelligence trading stocks at the speed of light, remote controlled insects with cameras, bending light, slowing light down, teleporting atoms. hair loss? NOPE lol

dont make a damn bit of a sense to me

[Renee]

Here is a link to more government funded research for hair loss currently going on:

http://www.projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8856135&icde=25386943

Then click on the back to query link on the top right side and where it says text search type dermal papilla and it shows a bunch of government funded research currently going on at different universities.

[JayM]

Wow there is so much there. Cotsarelis is a big name in the hairloss industry as well.

[Trouse5858]

That's encouraging. I also just typed in "hair follicle" into the query form and the database returned 138 results. Not all of them are applicable to hair loss, but several look very promising, including "PLANAR CELL POLARITY SIGNALING IN HAIR FOLLICLE FORMATION" and "TISSUE ENGINEERING OF NEW HAIR FORMATION" at the University of Southern California. Both have over $340 thousand worth of funding. Not a ton of money per se, but the more groups working on it - the merrier.

[lacazette]

Rajesh Thangapazham, Ph.D., a Research Assistant Professor in the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology, USU, was recently selected as a recipient of a 2015 Dermatology Foundation Research Award. Thangapazham will receive the Foundation’s Women’s Health Career Development Award for his project, “Genes Regulating Hair Follicle Neogenesis, Growth, and Development.” Thangapazham and colleagues have shown de novo hair follicle neogenesis in skin substitutes made entirely with cultured human cells.

[JayM]

So it sounds like we can do it then? If you can grow them in a skin substitute then put them in my head haha.

How do you think this topical trial coming up could interlink with this? Maybe for gene therapy it works kind of like how genes are altered in cystic fibrosis? I'm excited but how much don't we know? Hmmm.

[JayM]

So does it mean that if they have grown and caused neogenisis in Novo, from all human cells, they had the perfect model par a living human to test products? I'm buzzed.