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 […]
Beatrice Mintz (1921-2022)
We have just learnt that a giant in mouse developmental biology, Beatrice Mintz, passed away, at the age of 100, on January 3, 2022. Besides her many remarkable scientific contributions she also was the mentor of outstanding researchers, including our colleague from ESPCR and IFPCS Lionel Larue. He informed me about these sad news and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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