Travel Grants

Travel grant opportunities for young investigators were available through regional hair research societies.

The North American Hair Research Society provided Travel Grant opportunities for North American young investigators and those without a regional society. Listed below are the Travel Grant recipients as reported by each sister society. Grant recipients will be mentioned at their society’s general membership meeting. The Travel Grant recipients of the North American Hair Research Society will be awarded their certificates and checks at the Closing Ceremony and a photograph taken.

CONGRATULATIONS to Travel Grant recipients of the 9th World Congress for Hair Research!

AUSTRALASIAN HAIR AND WOOL RESEARCH SOCIETY
  Jane Li, MBBS   The University of Melbourne
 
EUROPEAN HAIR RESEARCH SOCIETY
  Serena Buscone, PhD   Bradford University
  Varvara Kanti, MD   Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  Anna Lyakhovitsky, MD   Tel Aviv University, The Sackler School of Medicine
  Helena Topouzi   Imperial College London
 
THE KOREAN HAIR RESEARCH SOCIETY
  Hee-Chul Chung, MD   Yonsei University, Wonju College of Medicine
  Yong Hyun Jang, MD, PhD   Yonsei University, Wonju College of Medicine
  Kwan Ho Jeong, MS   Catholic University of Korea, St. Paul's Hospital
  Hong Jin Joo, MD   St. Paul's Hospital
  Jin Yong Kim   Seoul National University, College of Medicine
 
THE SOCIETY FOR HAIR SCIENCE RESEARCH (JAPAN)
  Misake Ise, MD   Kyourin University, School of Medicine
  Aki Natsumi, MD   Osaka City University, Graduate School of Medicine
 
NORTH AMERICAN HAIR RESEARCH SOCIETY
  Marta Bertolini, PhD   University of Münster
  Thomas Chu, MD   University at Buffalo, SUNY
  Milene Crispin, MD   Stanford University
  Omer Ibrahim, MD   Cleveland Clinic
  Karzan Khidhir, MD   University of Sulaimani
  Yana Lya Almeida Léda, MD   Hospital do Servidor Publico Municipal
  Mingxing Lei, PhD   University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
  Liye Suo, MD   Baylor College of Medicine
  Nikki Tang, MD   Mt. Sinai Beth Israel
  Dorota Zalitacz, MD   Jagiellonian University

Oral & Poster Presenter Awards

Oral Presenter Awards

            Sung-Jan Lin, MD, PhD National Taiwan University “Inducing Hair Follicle Organogenesis with Defined Protein Factors” 
 
  Milene Crispin, MD              Stanford University “Two-Center Open-Label Trial of Oral Tofacitinib in Patients with Severe, Recalcitrant Alopecia Areata”
 
  Jane  Li, MBBS                    The University of Melbourne “Alopecia Areata Bulbs Show Significant Transcriptional Abnormalities Before, During and After Active Hair Loss”
 

Poster Presenter Awards

               Jiang Chen, MD Stony Brook University “The Development of a Genetic Approach to Suppress an Inheritable Structure Defect of the Hair”
 
  Yuval Ramot, MD Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center “A Stable Polyamine Analogue, N1-methylspermidine, Prolongs Anagen and Regulates Human Hair Follicle Stem Cells via Anti-oxidative, Anti-inflammatory and Peripheral Clock-related Mechanisms”
 
  Chang Hoon Seo, BSc School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University “Activin A is Overexpressed in Three-Dimensional (3D) Cultured Human DP Spheres and Affects Hair Inductive Potency of Neonatal Mouse Dermal Cells”