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Awards
Herman Handwerker Prize
Beiersdorf offered, for the period of four years, a “Herman Handwerker Prize for young researchers” (up to 35 years) for the best poster presentation at the ISFI meetings (2000,- $).
During the 6th World Congress on Itch in Brest in September 2011, the Hermann Handwerder Prize was granted to
Hannah R. Moser, Mineapolis, USA: “Pruritic responses in rat trigeminothalamic tract neurons: evidence against an itch-specific pathway”
Hermann Handwerker Prize: Alexandru Dragos Petru Papoiu,
Wake Forest University Health Sciences, USA: A tale of two itches: Common features and notable differences in brain activation revealed in a comparative fMRI study of cowhage and histamine induced itch.
The 2007 award was granted to Steve Davidson for his work on itch and the neural mechanisms underlying the effects on scratching. Please read more about his work here
Travel grants and poster prizes
WCI Brest 2011
During the 6th World Congress on Itch in Brest in September 2011, further awards have been granted:
Poster Prize
Christina Schut, Giessen, Germany: “Mental itch induction in patients with chronic urticaria”
Travel Grants:
Tasuku Akiyama, Davis, USA: “Warming enhances serotonin-evoked itch via TRPV4”
Ngoc Quan Phan, Münster, Germany: “Skin analysis by 5D intravital multiphoton tomography in patients with atopic dermatitis treated with aprepitant- a case study”
“Developing Country IFSI Travel Grant”
Christian Muteba Baseke, Kinshasa, Congo: “Epidemiology of Scabies To Akram Hospital, About 49 Cases In Kinshasa / DRC”
WCI Tokyo 2009
The following grants and prizes have been assigned:
Travel Grants:
Andreas E. Kremer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Premier): Autotaxin is a potential mediator of cholestatic pruritus.
Ferda Cevikbas, University of California, San Francisco, USA (Premier): IL-31: An important player in the scene of itch.
Adam Reich, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland: Visual analogue scale as a validated assessment of pruritus intensity.
Tasuku Akiyama, University of California Davis, USA: Enhanced scratching in a mouse model of chronic dry skin itch.
Christine Blome, University Clinics of Hamburg, Germany: National epidemiological study in Germany: Pruritus in a cohort of 11,700 employees
Dmitry V. Romanov, Moscow Medical Academy, Russia: The new approach to studying neurophysiological mechanisms of itch: Evoked potentials to electrical and thermal stimulation in patients with atopic dermatitis.
Tobias Lotts, University of Muenster, Germany: Multidimensional database for pruritus patients – Statistical evaluation of clinical characteristics.
Poster Prizes:
Kenichi Taneda, Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital, Japan: Evaluation of psoriatic itch by epidermal nerve density and opioid receptor levels
Suhandy Tengara, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan: Epidermal nerve density is modulated by keratinocytes-produced anosmin-1.
Ethan A Lerner, Harvard University, USA: Cathepsin S is an endogenous cysteine protease, elicits itch, and signals via protease-activated receptors
Toshiharu Fujiyama, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan: Stress management alleviates atopic pruritus.
In the future, funds raised from industry and individuals will be utilized for a range of resources, including grants, publications, community outreach and public relations. Currently, we have received support from the following health product companies:
Beiersdorf Inc., Stiefel Corporation, Hermal GmbH and Co
If you are interested in support of our Society, please contact directly: Jacek Szepietowski (jszepiet@derm.am.wroc.pl) and Earl Carstens (eecarstens@ucdavis.edu)
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