The usually biennial World Congress for Hair Research gatherings are the most instructive and large-scale gatherings in the world of hair.

9th World Congress for Hair Research

The website for the 9th World Congress for Hair Research in November 2015 is already up. They have a preliminary scientific program on there, with the US-based leading trifecta of hair loss researchers Angela Christiano, George Cotsarelis and Ken Washenik all presenting. Hopefully the other well known research teams that I have discussed on this blog from Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the UK also show up.

It is a bit unusual that three women (Co-Chairs Dr. Angela Christiano and Dr. Wilma Bergfeld and Associate Chair Dr. Maria Hordinsky) are in charge of this conference for a problem that is generally thought to strike men much more than women. The vast majority of hair loss researchers, hair transplant surgeons and hair loss forum participants are male.

However, in the real world, I have noticed an increasing number of women with thinning hair and it makes sense that we are seeing more female representation in the hair loss research arena (e.g., Dr. Claire Higgins).

Or maybe the second image in my post on human evolution was not a joke, and a female led world is close to being reality?