Program | European Hair Research Society Meeting

THURSDAY - MAY 29, 2025

10:00-12:00

TRICHOSCOPY 1

Chairmen: Lidia Rudnicka, Adriana Rakowska, Anna Waśkiel-Burnat
1. Introduction: Lidia Rudnicka
2. Principles of performing trichoscopy in clinical practice. Marta Kurzeja
3. Basic Trichoscopy Structures. Lidia Rudnicka
4. Androgenetic alopecia. From trichoscopy to my therapy approach. Adriana Rakowska
5. Mimickers of androgenetic alopecia. Trichoscopy and therapeutic approaches. Nino Khutsishvili
6. Dermoscopy of scalp tumors. Grażyna Kaminska-Winciorek
7. Filler induced alopecia. Clinical presentation and trichoscopy. Daniel Asz Sigall
8. Alopecia areata. From trichoscopy to therapeutic approach. Anna Waśkiel-Burnat
9. Mimickers of alopecia areata. David Saceda Corallo

12:00-12:30

Coffee Break

12:30-14:30

TRICHOSCOPY 2

Chairmen: Lidia Rudnicka, Adriana Rakowska, Anna Waśkiel-Burnat
1. Body hair trichoscopy. Antonella Tosti
2. Lichen planopilaris and frontal fibrosing alopecia. From trichoscopy to therapeutic approach. Rodrigo Pirmez
3. Dissecting cellulitis and folliculitis decalvans. From trichoscopy to therapeutic approach. Daniel Fernandes Melo
4. Traction alopecia. Clinical presentation, trichoscopy and my therapeutic approach. Özlem Dicle
5. Erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp. From trichoscopy to therapeutic approach. Tatiana Siliuk
6. Discoid lupus erythematosus of the scalp. From trichoscopy to therapeutic approach. Fernanda Torres
7. Tinea capitis. Hoda Moneib
8. Interpretation of scaling in trichoscopy. Nadia El Kadi
9. Eyebrows and eyelashes. Tülin Güleç

14:30-15:00

Snacks for participants of the trichoscopy sessions

15:00-17:00

PLENARY LECTURES 1

Special Lecture - President of the EHRS: Influence of the hair follicle on sensory nerve architecture (15 minutes). Claire Higgins (United Kingdom)
Emerging therapies and hot topics in the management of androgenetic alopecia (15 min). Sergio Vañó-Galván (Spain)
How I choose a JAK inhibitor for my patient with alopecia areata? (15 min). Antonella Tosti (USA)
Alopecia as a manifestation of hematological malignancies (15 min). Yuval Ramot (Israel)
Scalp psoriasis. Seeing the wider picture (15 min). Nino Lortkipanidze (Georgia)
Systemic minoxidil treatment for hair loss. My perspective (15 min). Rodney D. Sinclair (Australia)

Q&A (after every presentation)

17:00-17:30

Coffee Break

17:30-18:30

PLENARY LECTURES 2

Approach to hair loss in transgender patients (15 min). Rodrigo Pirmez (Brazil)
Systemic and topical therapies in androgenetic alopecia. Clinical experience and scientific discoveries (15 min). Ulrike Blume-Peytavi (Germany)
Alopecia areata. Personal reflections and scientific discoveries (15 min). Andrew G. Messenger (United Kingdom)

Q&A (after every presentation)

18:30-19:30

OPENING CEREMONY
Welcome address. Lidia Rudnicka (Poland) , Chairman of the EHRS2025 Meeting
Warsaw – Host City of EHRS 2025 (shortfilm)
Welcome address. Claire Higgins (United Kingdom), President of the EHRS
Introduction of John Ebling Lecturer. Sergio Vañó Galván (Spain)
John Ebling Lecture: Hair loss from history to the modern world. Bianca M. Piraccini (Italy)

Room 1
Room 2

FRIDAY - MAY 30, 2025

8:00-9:00

TRICHOSCOPY 3

Chairman: Bianca Piraccini
1.    Trichoscopy of differential diagnosis of common inflammatory diseases
2.    Is it dissecting cellulitis, Folliculitis decalvans or erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp? Leonardo Spagnol Abraham (about differential diagnosis of these three conditions in trichoscopy)
3.    Is it dandruff, seborrheic dermatitis or scalp psoriasis? Lidia Rudnicka (about differential diagnosis of these two conditions in trichoscopy)
4.    Is it androgenetic alopecia, fibrosing alopecia in pattern distribution or lichen planopilaris? Maria Fernanda Gavazzoni (about differential diagnosis of these two conditions in trichoscopy)
5.    Differentail diagnosis - Quiz cases. Bianca Piraccini (inflammatory diseases)
6.    Scalp seborrheic dermatitis and the microbiome in diverse populations. Natalia Kovylkina

9:00-9:15

Wigs and toppers. What are the options? (10 min). Judy Geisinsky (USA)

9:15-10:15

Novel approach to alopecia areata. Sponsored Session

10:15-10:35

Coffee Break

10:35-12:15

PROGRESS IN CLINICAL RESEARCH - SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Chairman: Michela Starace

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Prospective monocentric cohort study on predictive factors for response to JAK inhibitor therapy in severe Alopecia Areata (4 min) Stephano Cedirian, Federico Quadrelli, Francesca Pampaloni, Daniela Pinto, Michela Starace, Bianca Maria Piraccini (Italy)
Precision Hair Regeneration: the power of biomimetic nanoparticles & 3D-printed microneedles (4 min) Renata Basto, Laura Andrade Junqueira, Atabak Ghanizadeh Tabriz, Dennis Douroumis, Sofia A. C. Lima, Salette Reis (Portugal, UK)
Long-term efficacy and safety of ritlecitinib in adults and adolescents with alopecia areata (AA): 3-year results from the ALLEGRO-LT phase 3, open-label study (4 min) Maryanne M. Senna, Ignasi Figueras, Misaki Kinoshita-Ise, Sameh Hanna, Wenyu Wu, Dalia Wajsbrot, Deborah Woodworth, Robert Wolk, Alanna Chaudhry, Alexandre Lejeune, Helen Tran (USA, Canada, France, Spain, China, Japan)
Upadacitinib in the treatment of refractory alopecia areata: a retrospective study (4 min) Jinran Lin, Qin Wang, Wenyu Wu (China)
Mesotherapy and iontophoresis with dutasteride: what do we know so far?(4 min) Michela Starace (Italy)
Accuracy evaluation of an AI-based image analysis system for predicting hair loss treatment outcomes (4 min) Taro Koyama, Yoshihito Miyama, Masako Morishita, Kobayashi Kazuhiro (Japan)
Alopecia areata coexisting with atopic dermatitis. A therapeutic challenge (4 min) Malgorzata Maj, Malgorzata Olszewska, Lidia Rudnicka (Poland)
Recipient site necrosis after hair transplantation: a retrospective multicentre study (4 min) Cristina Romera de Blas, Jose M. Mir Bonafé, Óscar Muñoz Moreno-Arrones, Sergio Vañó Galván, David Vega Díez, Ángela Hermosa Gelbard, Marta Rubio Lombraña, Pablo Martín Carrasco, Alba Gómez Zubiaur (Spain)
Fecal microbiota transplantation as a novel approach in alopecia areata: a potential gut-immune axis intervention (4 min) Tea Rosovic, Goran Hauser, Lidia Rudnicka (Croatia, Poland)
Scalp melanoma – a retrospective 10-year study of patients treated at the department of dermatology, venereology, and allergology in Gdańsk (4 min) Martyna Sławińska, Beata Zagórska, Jakub Żółkiewicz, Urszula Maińska, Michał Sobjanek (Poland)
Immunohistochemical and molecular detection of treponema pallidum in syphilitic alopecia (4 min) Danielle Cristine Westphal, Patrícia Morais, Camila Gurgel Dos Santos Da Silva, Cynthia Oliveira Ferreira, André Luiz Leturiondo, Monica Nunes De Souza Santos (Brazil)
Line-field confocal optical coherence tomography (LC-OCT) in the diagnosis of scalp actinic keratosis and squamous cell carcinoma (4 min) Olga Warszawik-Hendzel, Marta Kurzeja (Poland)
LC-OCT features of scalp psoriasis (4 min) Aleksandra Kuchnicka, Adriana Rakowska, Lidia Rudnicka (Poland)
Could non-contact compression be an alternative hair growth treatment to Kir6.1/SUR2B channel activator minoxidil? (4 min) Hiroya Takada, Kaori Hasumura, Yuka Taniyama, Chiharu Hirama, Yuta Ohashi, Yuki Ishida, Masahiro Takeda, Takayuki Hoshi, Rei Ogawa (Japan)
Effectiveness and safety of baricitinib on nail involvement in patients with severe alopecia areata: a 48-week study (4 min) Francesca Pampaloni, Federico Quadrelli, Francesca Bruni, Stephano Cedirian, Luca Rapparini, Michela Starace, Bianca Maria Piraccini (Italy)

Q&A (after every presentation)

12:15-13:15

Lunch

13:15-15:10

PLENARY LECTURES 3

The most challenging cases from my clinical practice (15 min) Rachita Dhurat (India)
Allergy to hair cosmetics (15 min). Beata Kręcisz (Poland)
Hair loss in systemic lupus erythematosus. Clinical presentation and trichoscopy (15 min). Maria Fernanda Reis Gavazzoni Dias (Brasil)
Pressure alopecia (15 min). Daniel Asz Sigall (Mexico)
Longterm treatment of alopecia areata with JAK inhibitors (15 min) Maria Hordinsky (USA)
Oral minoxidil. What's new? (15 min). Andy Goren (USA)
Laser for androgenetic alopecia. What is the evidence? (15 min). Chang-Hun Huh (Korea)

Q&A (after every presentation)

15:10-15:40

Coffee Break

15:40-16:40

PLENARY LECTURES 4

What's new beyond JAK inhibitors for alopecia areata (15 min). Abraham Zlotogorski (Israel)
Loss of beard hair (15 min). Dmitri Wall (Ireland)
Understanding the hair cycle for clinicians (15 min). Ramot Yuval (Israel)

Q&A (after every presentation)

16:40-17:40

KEYNOTE LECTURES

What's hot in hair research? (20 min). Angela Christiano (USA)
What a dermatologist should know about the nervous system? (20 min). Maria Hordinsky (USA)

17:40-18:10

Coffee Break

18:10-19:10

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

FRIDAY - MAY 30, 2025

09:00-10:15

PROGRESS IN RESEARCH 1
Chairman: Yuval Ramot

Introductory lecture - Clinical and pathobiological associations between alopecia areata and chronic inflammatory skin disorders (15 min) F. Buket Basmanav, Annika Friedrich, Marisol Herrera-Rivero, Hadis Abdolahzadeh, Marie-therese Schmitz, Yasmina Gossmann, Swapnil Awasthi, Nicole Cesarato, Stephan Ripke, Bettina Blaumeiser, Ulrike Blume- Peytavi, Gerhard Lutz, Silke Redler, Markus M. Nöthen, Regina C. Betz (Germany, Belgium)
JAK3/TEC kinase pathways are active in alopecia areata (AA) lesions, and their inhibition with ritlecitinib prevents experimentally induced hair follicle immune privilege collapse in an ex vivo model of AA (10 min) Marta Bertolini, Alexandre Lejeune, Joana Viola-Söhnlein, Thomas Rouillé, Elizabeth Kieras, David A Martin, Jean-baptiste Telliez, Leslie J. Berg, Ilaria Piccini, Karin Pappelbaum, Janin Edelkamp (France, USA, Germany)
Immune shift to enhanced cytotoxicity of peripheral NKG2D+ CD8 T cells in active alopecia areata (10 min) Kim Do-Young, Chung Kyung-Bae, Hwang Ji-Hye,Kim Eun-Hye (Korea)
Small peptides with big effects: vegan hydrolyzed proteins as new potential anti-hair loss and scalp caring actives (10 min) Sabine Gruedl, Gudrun Heinen, Melanie Ludwig, Thomas Welss (Germany)
Autoantigen profiling and insights into the etiopathogenesis of frontal fibrosing alopecia: A multiplex microarray analysis in 282 patients (10 min) David Saceda-Corralo, Javier Perez-Bootello, Carlos Azcarraga-Llobet, Ruth Cova-Martin, Jorge Naharro-Rodriguez, Maria Gonzalez-Ramos, Angela Hermosa-Gelbard, Hari Krishnamurthy, Chithra Changalath, Sergio Vano-Galvan (Spain, USA)

Q&A (after every presentation)

10:15-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:15

PROGRESS IN RESEARCH 2
Chairmen: Alexander Steinkasserer, Tamás Bíró

Introductory lecture - Soluble CD83 as a novel therapeutic approach for the treatment of alopecia (15 min) Alexander Steinkasserer, Dmytro Royzman, Pia Sinner, Katrin Peckert-Maier, Petra Mühl-Zürbes (Germany)
Immune properties of preadipocytes in the pathogenesis of androgenic alopecia (10 min) Kamila Kurbanova, Fatima Azimova (Uzbekistan)
A novel ingredient blend enhances hair growth by modulating wnt signaling, DP inductivity, and elastin expression in ex vivo human scalp hair follicles (10 min) Marta Bertolini, Ilaria Piccini, Ioanna Papasideri, Thomas Rouille, Ashish Bhatia, Felipe Jimenez, Janin Edelkamp (Germany, USA)
N,N-Dimethylglycine sodium salt prevents human dermal papilla senescence and improves the conditions for healthy hair growth (10 min) Tamás Bíró, Gabriella Béke, Alexandra Lendvai, Erika Hollósi, Jörn Michael Völker, Erik Schulze zur Wiesche, Árpád Lányi, Attila Bácsi, Johanna Mihály (Hungary, Germany)

Q&A (after every presentation)

12:15-13:15

Lunch

13:15-

Continuation of the lectures - Room 1

Room 1
Room 2

SATURDAY - MAY 31, 2025

8:00-9:00

THE BIG TRICHOSCOPY QUIZ

Chairmen: Lidia Rudnicka, Adriana Rakowska, Anna Waśkiel-Burnat
1.    Trichoscopy structures. Anna Waśkiel-Burnat (Poland) (15 min)
2.    Diseases. Adrianna Rakowska (Poland) (15 min)
3.    Disease recognition. Lidia Rudnicka (Poland) (15 min)
4.    Equipment for trichoscopy. Whats new? Mohammad Daryaie (Germany) (7 min)
5.    Awards for quiz winners. Lidia Rudnicka (Poland) (8 min)

9:00-10:00