Remembering those former ESPCR Members that have left us...
From now on, there will be a section, at the ESPCR web site, devoted to remembering those former ESPCR Members that have left us. This is a deserved recognition for those colleagues that once belonged to and worked for our Society. We just hope we will not have to update this page too often.
First ESPCR Bulletin published (nº 1) March 1987
The ESPCR is born!. These were the very first words found in the first ESPCR bulletin, published in March 1987. The ESPCR Bulletin Editor was, at the time, Prof. F. Lejeune (Brussels). Since then, 66 issues have been published, 65 normal issues and 1 special issue, published in June 1993. All these issues are now available from the ESPCR web site. Only the issues corresponding to the last three years have restricted access to members, protected by username/password. These parameters can be requested by ESPCR members very easily, from the ESPCR web site too.
Now, thanks to a tremendous effort made by Ghanem Ghanem, current ESPCR Editor, who took the initiative to transform all previous files in scanned PDF documents, we could all enjoy all these ESPCR bulletins, electronically, easily, directly downloading them from the ESPCR web site, at the Bulletin Section.
Many thanks Ghanem!. The ESPCR is most grateful for all your continuous and generous dedication as Editor of the ESPCR Bulletin.
2010 ESPCR registration awards for the 16th ESPCR annual meeting
Dear ESPCR members,
Following a well established tradition, The European Society for Pigment Cell Research will provide SEVEN REGISTRATION AWARDS for attendance at XVI ESPCR meeting to be held at Hinxton-Cambridge (United Kingdom), on September 4-7, 2010. Awards will cover exclusively conference registration and accommodation costs (in twin bed rooms), according to the ESPCR 2010 meeting web site. Applicants, typically PhD student or junior scientists, may obtain full details at the ESPCR web site. Awards will be made by the ESPCR Registration Awards Committee on a competitive basis.
Deadline for receiving applications: April 30, 2010
All the best,
Alessandra Napolitano, Chair, ESPCR Travel Awards Committee
Vitiligo Book, Edited by Mauro Picardo and Alain Taïeb
A new book on “Vitiligo” has been just published by Springer, 2010. The book is edited by Prof. Mauro Picardo (Vice-President of IFPCS and former President of ESPCR) and Prof. Alain Taïeb (Secretary of ESPCR and member of the IFPCS council). Most of the authors responsible for the different book chapters are also IFPCS members.
Extracted from Springer’s web page: “Vitiligo is one of the most common cutaneous disorders. Great numbers of affected patients suffer from the high stigmatizing impact of this disease. Up to now, clinical guidelines for the treatment of vitiligo were non-existent. In order to fill this void, this textbook defines and gives a complete overview of the disease, both regarding the classification of differential diagnosis as well as the treatment. Written by the most authoritative experts in the field, all therapy recommendations are based on new evidence-based guidelines. It includes case studies with illustrations before and after the treatment in order to demonstrate the treatment success. This textbook will be a valuable resource for all physicians who are seeing patients with this disease“.
Table of Contents:
Section I: Defining the Disease.- Section II: Understanding the Disease.- Pathophysiology Overview.- Generalized Vitiligo.- Genetic.- Environmental Factors.- In Vivo Data.- Animal Model.- In Vitro Approaches.- Oxidative Stress.- Immune/Inflammatory Aspects.- Cytokines and Growth Factors.- Proopiomelanochortin and Related Hormones in Vitiligo.- Segmental Vitiligo.- The Concept of Mosaicism Applied to SV.- Neural Hypothesis.- In Vivo Data.- In Vitro Data.- Editor’s Synthesis.- Section III: Therapy.- How to Manage the Patients: Overview.- Evidence Based Medicine.- Phototherapies.- Local Treatments.- Systemic Treatments.- Non Defined Treatments.- Surgical Therapies and Combined Therapies.- Camouflage: Practical Aspects.- Patient’s Perspective.- Editor’s Syntesis.- Conclusions.- Appendix.- Treatment Regimen (Phototherapies): Pratical Aspects.- Techinques for Grafting.- Index
4th National Congress of SOMADEC-Melasma Course
The Fourth Congress of the Moroccan Society of Aesthetic and Surgical Dermatology (SOMADEC) will be held in Rabat on May 7-8 th 2010 including plenary lectures, courses, round tables and workshops.
As in the past year, the entire first day will be devoted to a training Course of Pigmentology. For this next meeting the topic choosen will be: “The Melasma management in daily practice” which is, as you know, a challenging problem for the dermatologists. During the second Day, the most recent developments in: “The use of Lasers, fillers and botulinium toxin ” will be presented by experts and discussed.
We hope to see you numerous in Rabat in May 2010. We will try to make that this meeting will be beneficial for all the dermatologists attending, both in the field of scientific knowledges and in the field of the daily practice, in a socially and culturally most stimulating environment.
Pr Laila Benzekri
Secretary-General of the Moroccan Society of Aesthetic and Surgical Dermatology
PAYPAL
PAYPAL
Happy New Year!. Starting today, ESPCR can receive payments by credit card through a specific and secure ESPCR account established in PAYPAL. Currently, three forms of payment are available at the ESPCR for its members, to pay the corresponding annual fees: (1) bank wire transfer, (2) credit cards (via PAYPAL) and (3) cheques. Payments by cheques are surcharged whereas bank wire transfers and paypal payments are not. We hope this will greatly facilitate the registration and renewal administrative tasks, for registering members and for ESPCR Officers. Thanks for your patience, collaboration and understanding.
ESPCR Bulletin n. 65 (December 2009)
A new issue of the ESPCR Bulletin (number 65, December 2009) has been published. This ESPCR Bulletin can be browsed through the members-only section. ESPCR Members will require a valid username and password to access.
EuMelaNet
EuMelaNet stands for European Network for Melanin Research. EuMelaNet is a new Interest Group born within the European Society of Pigment Cell Research. Realizing the increasing interest in melanins and related biopolymers in Europe and several countries all over the world, in 2009 during the XV ESPCR meeting, held in Muenster, a number of researchers from academic and research institutions decided to implement a research network, the European Network for Melanin Research (EuMelaNet), with the aim of promoting research on melanins and melanogenesis at multidisciplinary level and offering their collective knowledge and expertise to meet the growing demand for new bio-based materials on the part of companies and health institutions.
The scientific coordinator of EuMelaNet is Prof. Marco d’Ischia (Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy). Those interested might contact EuMelaNet by sending an email message to eumelanet@espcr.org or by visiting the “contact us” web page.
ESPCR
The new ESPCR Society, “ESPCR AISBL“, has just established a brand new bank account where we will be processing all your membership payment requests. However, at the moment, unfortunately, we can’t accept payments by credit card. We will try to have this option operative as soon as possible. Therefore, currently, ESPCR AISBL can only accept payments by Bank Wire Transfer or by Cheque.
Payment through BANK WIRE TRANSFER using IBAN and BIC bank account codes is the preferred form of payment. Payment by Bank Wire Transfer is not surcharged. Payment by Cheque is surcharged with 15 Euros.
Deadline for receiving your application for 2010 ESPCR Membership is December 31st, 2009. We have established this early deadline to fulfill our compromises with the Publisher of PCMR, the scientitic journal associated to IFPCS, where ESPCR is part of the Federation. Please proceed to apply for 2010 ESPCR Membership following the provided indications in this web site.
If you have any question, please contact the ESPCR Treasurer by email: treasurer@espcr.org.
2010 Welcome Letter from the ESPCR President (Lionel Larue)
The registration process for 2010 ESPCR Membership is ready. To become an ESPCR Member you have to pay the annual subscription, which presently is 105 EUR for regular members, or 70 EUR for PhD students, including mandatory on-line subscription to PCMR through the IFPCS website. In addition, if you would like to receive the printed version of the PCMR journal you should add 70 euros to these amounts, thus resulting in 175 EUR or 140 EUR, for regular or student members, respectively. DEADLINE for joining/renewing your 2010 ESPCR membership: December 31st, 2009. This early deadline is due to the link we have now with PCMR and the required and associated administrative agreements with the Publisher.
The annual membership fee can be paid by credit card, cheque or bank transfer. Since 2009, we accept payments of ESPCR Membership for up to 3 years in advance (up to 2012). Therefore, if you wish to pay for 3 years in a row and secure your 2010, 2011 and 2012 ESPCR Membership you are entitle to do so now. Simply select the appropriate field in the electronic registration form.
Should you have any question or problem, you might wish to ask the President, the Treasurer, or the Secretary or the ESPCR webmaster for additional help.