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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President-elect
Phyllis SPULSMD, PhD, Consultant Dermatologist at The Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, NL
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Past-president
Luigi NALDIDirector of Centro Studi GISED, Fondazione per la Ricerca Ospedale Maggiore, Bergamo, Italy
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President FRT Scientific Board
Luis PUIGMD, PhD, Department of Dermatology, Hospital de la Sanat Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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Past-President FRT Scientific Board
Thomas LUGERChair of Department of Dermatology, University of Münster, Germany
Members of the committee (by alphabetical order)
Martine BAGOT
Professor and Chairperson, Dermatology Department and INSERM U976, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France
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
Alan MENTER
Chair of research for Dermatology at Baylor Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and Professor at Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, USA
Ulrich MROWIETZ
MD, Head of Psoriasis-Center, Dept. of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany
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
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
Jacob THYSSEN
Dr Thyssen is a clinical dermatologist and Professor employed by the
Capital Region and University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
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
UV spectrophotometric method for simultaneous estimation of betamethasone valerate and tazarotene with absorption factor method: Application for in-vitro and ex-vivo characterization of lipidic nanocarriers for topical delivery.
Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc.
2020 Jul 05, 235:118310.
The present study elucidates the development of an accurate, precise and simple simultaneous estimation method for the routine analysis of Betamethasone Valerate (BV) and Tazarotene (TZ). This combination is widely used in the treatment of psoriasis. No method has been reported so far for the simultaneous estimation of BV and TZ in topical dosage forms. The method proposed by this study for the quantification of BV and TZ is the Absorption factor method. The developed method was validated (...)
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Sensing of endogenous nucleic acids by ZBP1 induces keratinocyte necroptosis and skin inflammation.
J. Exp. Med..
2020 Jul 06, 217, (7).
Aberrant detection of endogenous nucleic acids by the immune system can cause inflammatory disease. The scaffold function of the signaling kinase RIPK1 limits spontaneous activation of the nucleic acid sensor ZBP1. Consequently, loss of RIPK1 in keratinocytes induces ZBP1-dependent necroptosis and skin inflammation. Whether nucleic acid sensing is required to activate ZBP1 in RIPK1-deficient conditions and which immune pathways are associated with skin disease remained open questions. Using (...)
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Tackling the various classes of nano-therapeutics employed in topical therapy of psoriasis.
Drug Deliv.
2020 Dec , 27, (1):662-680.
Psoriasis is a dermatological chronic skin condition with underlying autoimmune etiology. It deeply affects patients' quality of life. Therefore, it was an interesting target for researchers throughout the past years. Conventionally, the treatment options include anti-inflammatory agents, immune suppressants, biologic treatment, and phototherapy. Nanotechnology offers promising characteristics that allow for tailoring a drug carrier to achieve dermal targeting, improved efficacy and (...)
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on Atopic Dermatitis
Skin of atopic dermatitis patients shows disturbed β-glucocerebrosidase and acid sphingomyelinase activity that relates to changes in stratum corneum lipid composition.
Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids.
2020 Jun , 1865, (6):158673.
Patients with Atopic Dermatitis (AD) suffer from inflamed skin and skin barrier defects. Proper formation of the outermost part of the skin, the stratum corneum (SC), is crucial for the skin barrier function. In this study we analyzed the localization and activity of lipid enzymes β-glucocerebrosidase (GBA) and acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) in the skin of AD patients and controls. Localization of both the expression and activity of GBA and ASM in the epidermis of AD patients was altered, (...)
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Physiology and Pathophysiology of Itch.
Cevikbas F et al.
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Itch.
Physiol. Rev..
2020 Jul 01, 100, (3):945-982.
Itch is a topic to which everyone can relate. The physiological roles of itch are increasingly understood and appreciated. The pathophysiological consequences of itch impact quality of life as much as pain. These dynamics have led to increasingly deep dives into the mechanisms that underlie and contribute to the sensation of itch. When the prior review on the physiology of itching was published in this journal in 1941, itch was a black box of interest to a small number of neuroscientists (...)
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Update on canine filaggrin: a review.
Combarros D et al.
Update on canine filaggrin: a review.
Vet Q.
2020 Dec , 40, (1):162-168.
Human filaggrin (FLG) plays a key role in epidermal barrier function, and loss-of-function mutations of its gene are primarily responsible for the development of human atopic dermatitis (AD). FLG expression is also reduced in the epidermis of atopic patients, due to the transcriptional effect of Th2 type cytokines. Canine atopic dermatitis (CAD) is a prevalent skin disease that shares many clinical and pathogenic features with its human homologue. The aim of this review is discuss current (...)
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