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Wiete Westerhof

Dr Wiete Westerhof has passed away on July 3, 2024. He was a visionary Dermatologist affiliated with the Department of Dermatology at Amsterdam University, and a passionate pigmentation researcher. The ‘Westerhof syndrome’ presented by Wiete in 1978 describes a hereditary neurocutaneous syndrome different from TSC with hypo-and hypermelanotic lesions. Most of Wiete’s attention, however, was […]

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ASPCR 2018 meeting programme is now available!

The  full  programme  of  the  9th ASPCR Conference to  be  held  in Colombo Sri Lanka fro 15-18 August 2018 is  now  available on the meeting website. A wide  array  of  Guest  Lectures by  many  world  experts on pigmentary disorders, many free  papers and  posters  will  be  presented. The  inaugural ASPCR  Oration  will  be  delivered  by […]

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IFPCS supports the 4EDA-Albinism meeting in Oslo with four registrations

The Board of the International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies (IFPCS) has approved to support the 4th European Days of Albinism (4EDA) meeting, to be held in Oslo (Norway) on 7-10 March 2018, with four (4) standard registrations for IFPCS members willing to attend this conference. Researchers and clinicians interested to attend this meeting who […]

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Yutaka Mishima

Dear IFPCS members, it is with great sadness that I wish to share the following information, kindly transmitted by Prof. Kazumasa Wakamatsu, President of the Japanese Society for Pigment Cell Research (JSPCR): Dear Colleagues, On behalf of JSPCR members, I am very sad to inform you that Professor Emeritus Yutaka Mishima of Kobe University passed […]

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