Category: Research

September 2022 digest

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, In a month from now, we will hopefully convene physically for the first time since Utrecht 2018 with limited constraints due to the pandemic in Montréal. Please note if you come to Canada you need to access the ArriveCan platform which checks if you qualify as a fully vaccinated traveler. It […]

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Aaron DRUCKER

Rajka medal 2022: Aaron DRUCKER

Aaron Drucker MD, ScM, FRCPC is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Dermatologist and Scientist at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Canada. He completed medical school at Queen’s University, dermatology residency at the University of Toronto and a Master’s and Research Fellowship in Clinical and Translational Research at Brown University […]

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May 2022 digest

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, On June 6th members of the ISAD executive committee will meet in Antananarivo (Madagascar) WHO-AFRO and WHO-INT representatives respectively from Brazzaville (RDC) and Geneva (Switzerland) to discuss AD in the context of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affecting the skin which are the key priority of WHO. As shown at our last […]

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fellowships

ISAD Research Fellowships 2022

The ISAD Research Fellowships are funded by a generous grant of Pfizer with the aim of supporting research training of junior Dermatologists‐Venereologists, or residents in Dermatology‐Venereology in a high standard academic center. There are two fellowships lasting 3 months and one fellowship lasting 6 months.

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February 2022 digest

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, Our Society recently received a letter from Dr Shakirat GOLD-OLUFADI, Consultant Physician and Dermatologist at University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, one of our laureates of the 2021 Sub Saharan Africa Grants, who had difficulties recruiting for her project titled “The impact of education in indigenous languages on atopic dermatitis and factors determining severity of […]

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ISAD Grants/SSAI: summary of assessment & funding

2021 ➜ ISAD Grants/Sub-Saharan Africa Initiative (SSAI) 1 Lamissa CISSÉ, Mali Comparative study of skin microbiota in cases of atopic dermatitis in children in Bamako and rural areas in Mali6.000 €, liaise with TZ and SA (2, 4), limit to age group 6-10 yo. 2 Khanyisile DLADLA, South Africa Identifying associations between the skin microbiome, […]

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ISAD Research Fellowships 2021 publication

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, Paper form Rosie VINCENT (University of Bristol, NHS Foundation trust, UK), one of our three Research Fellowships 2019 recipient is now published: Frequency of guideline-defined cow’s milk allergy symptoms in infants: Secondary analysis of EAT trial data Rosie Vincent  1   2 , Stephanie J MacNeill  3 , Tom Marrs  4   5 […]

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