SPIN is steered by a Scientific Committee that supervises the good development of the Psoriasis International Network. The coordinators of the Scientific Committee represent the committee within the FRT - Fondation Rene Touraine’s Scientific Board.
The mission of the SPIN Committee is to develop the activities of the network, in particular by proposing international collaborative projects, contributing to continuing medical training in the field of skin inflammation and providing support to the development of national and regional networks.
Coordinators of SPIN Scientific Committee
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Président de la Fondation René Touraine
Thomas LUGERChair of Department of Dermatology, University of Münster, Germany
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President
Phyllis SPULSMD, PhD, Consultant Dermatologist at The Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, NL
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President-elect
Wolf-Henning BOEHNCKEChairman of the Dermatology Unit at Geneva University, Switzerland
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Past-president
Jo LAMBERTChair Department of Dermatology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium
Members of the committee (by alphabetical order)

Deepak M.W. Balak
MD PhD MSc, Department of Dermatology of the LangeLand Ziekenhuis in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

Nanja VAN GEEL
MD, PhD
Department of Dermatology
Ghent University Hospital, Belgium


Julien Seneschal
Dr Julien Seneschal is Professor of Dermatology at the Department of Dermatology, National Reference Center for Rare Skin Diseases, University of Bordeaux.

Dirk Jan Hijnen
MD, PhD. Erasmus MC in Rotterdam as a dermatologist, instructor and researcher.


Satveer Mahil
Dr Satveer Mahil is a Consultant Dermatologist at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK and adjunct Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, UK.

Tiago Torres
Tiago Torres is Professor of Dermatology at the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto.

Sandipan Dhar
Professor and Head, Department of Pediatric Dermatology,
Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

José Manuel CARRASCOSA
Associate Professor Department of Dermatology, Universitary Hospital Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Romana CEOVIC
MD, PhD, University Department of Dermatovenerology, Zagreb Clinical Hospital and School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

Elke DE JONG
Dermatologist at University Medical Center Nijmegen St Radboud, The Netherlands

Nejib DOSS
Head of the department of Dermatology – Military Hospital of Tunis, Professor Faculty of Medicine Tunis, Tunisia

Emad ELGAMAL
Professor of Dermatology, Venereology and Andrology, Damietta Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, New Damietta, Egypt

Carsten FLOHR
Professor Carsten Flohr, chair in dermatology and population science, St
John’s Institute of Dermatology, King’s college london

Maria Lorna FREZ
MD, Professor in Dermatology, University of the Philippines College of Medicine – Philippine General Hospital, Philippines

César GONZALEZ
Coordinator Grupo Colombiano de Psoriasis y artritis psoriasica (CoLPsor), Colombia

Alice GOTTLIEB
MD, PhD, Chair of Dermatology, Tufts Medical Centre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Christopher EM GRIFFITHS
MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Dermatology, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The Dermatology Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

Jan Gutermuth
Professor Jan Gutermuth studied medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz/ Germany and trained in dermatology and allergology at the Humboldt University Berlin (Charité) and Technische University Munich (TUM).

Rolland GYULAI
MD, PhD, Director and chair of the Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Dermatooncology, University of Pécs, Hungary



Kenji KABASHIMA
Pr. Kenji KABASHIMA, Chairman and Head, Department of Dermatology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.

Lajos KEMENY
Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology and Allergology, University of Szeged, Hungary

Alur S. KUMAR
Professor and Head of Department, Owaisi Hospital Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India

Richard LANGLEY
MD, FRCPC, Professor of Medicine (Dermatology) and Director of Research, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada

Mark LEBWOHL
MD, Sol and Clara Kest Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA


Fatimata LY
Head of the Dermatology Department at the Institute of Social Hygiene in Dakar, Professor of Dermatology at the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal

Ulrich MROWIETZ
MD, Head of Psoriasis-Center, Dept. of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany

Luigi NALDI
Director of Centro Studi GISED, Fondazione per la Ricerca Ospedale Maggiore, Bergamo, Italy

Alexander NAST
Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergy, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Carle PAUL
Chair of Department of Dermatology, Paul Sabatier University, CHU Larrey, Toulouse, France

Jörg Christoph PRINZ
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Univ. Jörg Christoph PRINZ, Clinic for Dermatology and Allergology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Luis PUIG
MD, PhD, Department of Dermatology, Hospital de la Sanat Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

Kristian REICH
Professor of Dermatology at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and at the Dermatologikum Berlin in Germany

Hugo SCHONENBERGER DE OLIVEIRA
MD University Dermatology Clinic, Coimbra University Hospital, Portugal

Lone SKOV
Professor, Consultant, Department of Dermato-Allergology, Gentofte Hospital,
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Mona STAHLE
Professor of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Medicine, Solna Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden


Diamant THAÇI
Professor and Head Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine, University Luebeck, Germany

Skaidra VALIUKEVICIENE
Professor and Head of the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Peter VAN DE KERKHOF
Chief of the Department of Dermatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Christian VESTERGAARD
Aarhus University Hospital | AUH · Department of Dermatology

Richard WARREN
NIHR Clinical Senior Lecturer in Dermatology, Dermatology Centre, University of Manchester, Honorary Consultant Dermatologist Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

ZHENG Min
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
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Recent publications on Psoriasis and Atopic Dermatitis
on Psoriasis
Conformational dynamics in interleukin 17A and 17F functional complexes is a key determinant of receptor A affinity and specificity.
Cytokine.
2021 Jun , 142:155476.
The proinflammatory cytokines IL-17A and IL-17F have been identified as key drivers of a range of human inflammatory diseases, such as psoriasis, which has led to several therapeutic antibodies targeted at IL-17A. The two cytokines have been shown to tightly associate as functional homo and hetero dimers, which induce signalling via the formation of a cell surface signalling complex with a single copy of both IL-17RA and IL-17RC. Striking differences in affinity have been observed for (...)
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Protective Effects of Polyvinylpyrrolidone-Wrapped Fullerene Against Nitric Oxide/Peroxynitrite-Induced Cellular Injury in Human Skin Keratinocytes.
J Nanosci Nanotechnol.
2021 Sep 01, 21, (9):4579-4585.
Excess ultraviolet (UV) exposure accelerates skin inflammation, melanogenesis, wrinkle formation, photoaging, and carcinogenesis through oxidative stress and deoxyribonucleic acid damage. These deleterious effects to skin are closely associated with UV-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) produced via nitric oxide (NO) generation. RNS are known to be responsible for various skin disorders, such as erythema, melanin production, reduced barrier function, (...)
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Catalpol ameliorates psoriasis-like phenotypes via SIRT1 mediated suppression of NF-κB and MAPKs signaling pathways.
Bioengineered.
2021 Dec , 12, (1):183-195.
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that affects approximately 2% of worldwide population, and causing long-term troubles to the patients. Therefore, it is urgent to develop safe and effective therapeutic drugs. Catalpol is a natural iridoid glucoside, that has several remarkable pharmacological effects, however, whether catalpol can alleviated psoriasis has not been explored. The goal of the present work is to study the role of catalpol in psoriasis in vivo and in vitro. (...)
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on Atopic Dermatitis
Viral metagenomic identification of a novel anellovirus in blood sample of a child with atopic dermatitis.
J Med Virol.
2021 Jun , 93, (6):4038-4041.
Here, using viral metagenomics, a novel anellovirus with strain name HuAV-zj-ad1 was detected in blood sample from a child with atopic dermatitis. The complete genome sequence of HuAV-zj-ad1 was determined and fully characterized. The circular genome of HuAV-zj-ad1 is 2841 nt in length and includes four polyprotein ORFs. Phylogenetic analysis and pairwise sequence comparisons based on the amino acid sequences of ORF1, ORF2, ORF3, ORF4 indicated that HuAV-zj-ad1 belonged to a novel species (...)
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Dupilumab therapy for patients with refractory eosinophilic otitis media associated with bronchial asthma.
Auris Nasus Larynx.
2021 Jun , 48, (3):353-360.
Eosinophilic otitis media (EOM) is an intractable otitis media mostly associated with bronchial asthma. Dupilumab, an anti-interleukin (IL)-4 receptor (R)α, is effective and has been approved for use in patients with moderate to severe bronchial asthma, atopic dermatitis and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis, whose diseases are not controlled by previous treatments including other molecular targeted drugs. We aimed to assess efficacy of dupilumab in three EOM patients with (...)
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Methicillin-resistant from infected skin lesions present several virulence genes and are associated with the CC30 in Brazilian children with atopic dermatitis.
Virulence.
2021 12 , 12, (1):260-269.
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease and colonization by may affect up to 100% of these patients. Virulent and resistant isolates can worsen AD patient clinical condition and jeopardize the treatment. We aimed to detect virulence genes and to evaluate the biofilm production of isolates from infected skin lesions of children with AD. Methicillin resistance was detected by phenotypic and molecular tests and the virulence genes were detected by PCR. Biofilm formation (...)
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