Funding Desmond to go to WCHR 2014

[Sogeking]

Guys, I am really glad we sent Desmond to Korea. Great work.
And now to comment:
I'm disappointed because I though all of this is 10y years away. Its not it is 15+ years away .

The biggest let down was from Follica I guess. Dr. Cotsarelis is a scientist he has no real motivation to bring anything to the market and that is why they can't get funding to bring anything to the market. He let Puretech ventures deal with all of that but I don't think there is any point to wait for that.


The quickest products to the market seem to be Replicel and CB. I really really hope Replicel will manage to increase efficacy from the Phase 1 trials but if they are going with the unchanged treatment than that won't do us much good, unless it can stopp the progression of hair loss.


@Thinning87

Hey mate, I get what you are saying but you have to realize that not anyone can become a white collar worker with 65k per year income, especially if one is not born in USA but in a developing country. 40- 60k $ treatment is bloody a lot, I earn around 15k per year in my country, which is enough for me to live comfortably, now imagine how much would I need to to save for a treatment. But anyway there is no point in discussing it on the forum, the provider of the treatment will set the price and the only thing that can affect it is the market, however who ever offers the treatment with growing new follicles without limit will have monopoly on the market.

[sascha]

Well if you read through the information Dr. Gardner gave us all this timeline bull is invalid. It happens when it happens and than it will occure rapidly. Guys need to stop to write these kind of posts. We should concentrate on the good things. Cotsarelis never entioned anything like quitting or failing. Histogen is on its course. so is CB. replicel too and they also have the new japanese regulations.

[Arashi]

Well if you read through the information Dr. Gardner gave us all this timeline bull is invalid. It happens when it happens and than it will occure rapidly. Guys need to stop to write these kind of posts.

+1

[bananana]

I haven't read everything concerning WCHR, simple because I don't have the time, but as it seems A LOT of positive stuff is going on, everything is developing with exponential rate, new teams are kicking in, we have far better understanding of MPB than we had just 10 years ago. Just take a look at this
Articles like these come BY THE HOUR! My software company is working on stuff that was labeled sci fi just 5, 6 years ago...

There is no doubt in my mind that treatments far better than "the big three" are close and the full blown NW7-1 cure is less than 10 years away.
Keep the optimism up guys.

[sdsurfin]

I agree with you about more effective preventative treatments coming online within the next decade or so. The research going into the CB vehicle looks promising and they just need to iron out a few technical problems before going mainstream with it. This will be an effective "cure" for future generations that really only requires careful attention to one's hair every now and then.



This is where I'll have to disagree. This is really a sad case of the devil being in the details. The problem of creating viable hair follicles in the lab is a completely different beast than transplanting them and expecting them to function as well as the native follicles. The former will likely be demonstrated sometime soon (if it hasn't already), but I don't think the latter will happen anytime soon at all and will probably require many extensive breakthroughs over many decades to achieve any sort of results. The problem is simply many more times difficult than it would appear.



No disagreement here.

Well the scientists working on this don't seem to be of the same opinion. considering they are creating skin from scratch these days, I'm sure they'll find some way to encase or support the follicle, and the new treatments like replicel will help to keep it healthy. I think the hard part is actually building a lot of new working follicles, but i wouldn't say ten years is unrealistic for that to happen. One huge question mught be: do the hair cells infulence their surroundings more than their surroundings influence them? if the former is true then there might be less problems to deal with. we shall see.

[thechamp]

What happened to piloxll???