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European Hair Research Society, Latanoprost

18th Meeting of the European Hair Research Society (EHRS)

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I was hoping to see many mentions on Twitter about the recently ended AHRS meeting in Orlando that I discussed in my last post. However, coverage has been sorely lacking. In contrast, the European Hair Research Society’s 18th Annual Meeting in Italy is getting significantly more coverage.

European Hair Research Society (EHRS) 18th Meeting

The EHRS 18th annual conference just started today, and will end on May 20th. Much more news is expected from there over the next several days.

Some highlights so far:

  • Dr. Ramon Grimalt from Spain posted the below interesting photo from a presentation by Dr. Yuliya Ovcharenko on Latanaprost and androgenetic alopecia (AGA). Note that Latanoprost is very closely related to Bimatoprost, which I have covered before. Both are prostamide F2α analogs.

Latanoprost and hair loss

European Hair Research Society

17th Meeting of the European Hair Research Society (EHRS), June 24-26

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The 17th annual meeting of the European Hair Research Society (EHRS) just started in Tbilisi, Georgia today. It runs through June 26, 2016. The final scientific program/schedule is here (link no longer working).

17th Meeting of the European Hair Research Society (EHRS)

When I first saw the thread about this conference on HLT, I was not too excited. These guys are focusing on alopecia areata almost as much as they are on androgenetic alopecia, even though over 95 percent of us balding people suffer from the latter. Moreover, the World Congress for Hair Research annual meetings have far more extensive lists of speakers and presenters compared to this one. Also important are the ISHRS annual conferences.

However, it turns out that there are still some presentations at the EHRS meeting that could potentially be very useful. Especially when it comes to our main interest in a hair loss cure based on hair regeneration, hair multiplication or hair cloning. Even new studies on things such as fat injections, PRP and laser are worth reading. I am in a rush today or else I would try to pick out presentations that I find the most interesting as I have done in the past for such events.

On HLT, a person named “Solomon” who lives in Georgia is planning to attend this conference and post audio and/or video of some of the most interesting presentations. He has created a thread where you can ask him questions. I hope he asks Dr. Angela Christiano or her team of presenters about JAK inhibitors, AGA and Aclaris.

A significant portion of these conferences is always devoted to hair transplants. I used to discuss those a bit more during the first two years of writing this blog, but reduced that significantly in the past year. This will probably change soon.