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June 2001
Dear Colleague,
1. BSID Annual Meeting 2001
Running the annual meeting from Monday to Wednesday in Warwick
this year proved very successful. Over 100 delegates attended
the affiliated meetings of the Skin Club, British Contact Dermatitis
Group and British Photodermatology Group on the Monday. 154 delegates
registered for the main BSID programme comprising 31 oral and
42 poster presentations. We used Powerpoint projection for the
first time which worked relatively smoothly apart from the occasional
glitch resulting from Apple to PC conversions. I enclose a summary
of the feedback that we have received. I would like to thank John
Berth-Jones for the time and effort he put into organising the
meeting.
Prize winners
BSID Young Investigator Award,
Sponsored by Fujisawa
Dr. Graham Ogg, MRC Human Immunology Unit, Institute of Molecular
Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford. For his
work on disease specific T cell responses utilising HLA peptide
class I telomeric complexes.
Oral Presentation, Unilever, 1st prize
Dr. Christos Antonopoulos, Centre for Dermatology, Department
of Medicine, University College London. "Topical application
of caspase-1 inhibitor, AC-YVAD-CMK, inhibits Langerhans cells
migration and contact hypersensitivity response in mice".
Oral Presentation, Unilever, 2nd prize
Dr. Rebecca Porter, Cancer Research Campaign Laboratories, School
of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. "A new type II keratin
(K6irs) is a specific marker for the inner root sheath of the
hair follicle".
Poster presentation, Leo Pharmaceuticals,
1st prize
Mr. Martin Hoogduijn, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University
of Bradford. "Melanin-concentrating hormone may act as a
paracrine inhibitor of melanogenesis".
Poster presentation, 2nd prize
Mr. Anthony Jeremy, Department of Dermatology, General Infirmary,
University of Leeds. "Inflammatory events are involved in
acne initiation".
Registrar's Prize for Best Oral Presentation,
Sponsored by Novartis
Dr. Caroline Morgan, Dermatopharmacology Unit, Southampton General
Hospital. "Pharmacological stimulation of sweat glands in
vivo using cutaneous microdialysis". This will allow her
to present her work at the BAD annual meeting in Cardiff in July.
Travel bursaries
(i) Stiefel - Dr. Caroline Morgan, Clinical
Research Fellow, Dermatopharmacology Unit, Southampton General
Hospital.
(ii) Galderma - Miss Helen Burrell, PhD Student, Dermatology
Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool.
(iii) 3M -Dr. Nellie Wadonda, Unit of Paediatric &
Perinatal Epidemiology, University of Bristol.
2. BSID Meeting 2002 - Norwich
The next annual meeting will be held in Norwich. Our local organiser
is Dr. Clive Grattan. Following feedback at Warwick we have arranged
the meeting at the University of Norwich to run from Monday 25
to Wednesday 27 March 2002. On Monday morning there will be a
meeting of the British Photodermatology Group which will be followed
by a meeting of the Skin Club on "skin allergy" in the
afternoon. The main BSID meeting will start on the Tuesday. Our
overseas guest speaker will be Jan Bouwes Bavinck from Leiden,
Holland, who will speak about his work on non-melanoma skin cancer.
In response to feedback at the AGM, we have put the abstract deadline
back this year to December 2001 but there will be no late breaking
abstracts. Further details will follow in the September newsletter.
We hope to continue with our approach of encouraging a broad field
of dermatological and skin related research and actively encourage
clinical and epidemiological research in addition to the traditional
laboratory-based format.
3. New Committee Members
Jane Sterling finished her term of office as treasurer and stood
down from the committee. We are very grateful to Jane for all
her hard work as treasurer and for her contribution to the committee.
Tony Quinn also stood down after a three year term of office and
we are grateful for Tony's contribution to the society.
Dr. Eugene Healy and Prof. John McGrath were elected onto the
committee in Warwick.
4. E-mail communication
As discussed at the AGM we plan to move over to electronic communication
during 2001 and will communicate solely in this format from 2002.
Newsletters and information about forthcoming meetings will be
posted on a newly configured BSID website later in the year. Please
provide us with information regarding e-mails or change of address
(available electronically by request). Alternatively e-mail the
BSID at bsid@ncl.ac.uk
Best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Nick J. Reynolds
Chairman
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