Date: 9/13/2011
TUMSPR News: TUMS Center for Research and Training in Skin Diseases and Leprosy and the Center for Studies and Research on the Integument affiliated to University of Franche-Comte signed a memorandum of understanding to further develop their scientific collaboration on September 13, 2011.
In a visit by Professor Philippe Humbert, the head of Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur le Tegument (CERT) under the University Hospital of Besancon affiliated to Franche-Comte University to TUMS Center for Research and Training in Skin Diseases and Leprosy a memorandum of understanding was signed to further develop the one year cooperation of the two centers for serious research.
In his opening remarks, Dr. Yahya Dowlati, the head of the Center, welcomed Professor Philippe Humbert and said “We are happy to have Dr. Humber as our guest and we are looking forward to the future [cooperation] as well” and added that despite a period less than a year the two centers have moved fast and hoped the two could keep up the pace to continue all the collaborations and extend them. Then he asked Prof. Humbert to introduce the French center.
At the beginning Professor Humbert thanked Prof. Dowlati and expressed his pleasure for being in the center for the second time. He then said from the time he left Iran a year ago he had travelled to more than 40 countries but it was only in Iran that he had been so warmly welcomed. He said “Iran is in my heart [and] it is why it’s a great honor and pleasure to be here.
In introducing CERT he said the Center which is situated in the city of Besancon, there existed the largest department of dermatology in France as his predecessors, Prof. Legagneux and Prof. Agache developed the department.
Professor Humbert explained that three kinds of research were going on in the center including the one in the laboratory of cutaneous biology that new skin models are developed and their new development kind of skin with internal mechanical properties for in vitro studies of healing and immunological, cancer or oncological studies. He argued that with age skin loses its elasticity needed for the movement of mediators.
He then described that fibroblasts taken from stretch marks developed more strength than normal ones and this could justify an abnormality in fibroblasts in these skin lesions.
On research in skin pharmacology, Prof. Humbert said, penetration of different ingredients into skin in both in vitro and in vivo conditions by microdialysis method, an accurate method to observe what happens to skin when a substance is applied to it.
Dr. Humbert then talked about the experience done four years ago involving the depletion of vitamin C in the skin which has a linear relationship with increasing age resulting in the appearance of Bateman's Purpura or ekhymosis in the arms of old people.
The third part of research at CERT includes cosmetic sciences, Dr. Humbert said. And methodologies and devices have been developed to measure the properties of the skin such as the ones done in TUMS Skin Diseases Research Center. The Professor Humbert said 15 years ago he had said cosmetology should be treated as a science and being science it needed scientific methodologies therefore any cosmetic product had to be studied as a drug. That means randomized, double blind studies.
Professor Humbert finally expressed his pleasure to develop collaboration in every of the three research areas, especially in clinical trials that are of high importance.
Then, Dr. Dowlati reminded his saying in Besancon that science knows no boundaries as people are living in a single world.
Finally Dr. Firouz, the Deputy for Education of the Center welcomed Dr. Humbert and thanked him for accepting the invitation to the coming congress by the center and signing of the memorandum.
Dr. Firouz fully introduced the center as the first and largest research center on skin in Iran and its establishment in 1992. He then describe the type of research going on in the center such as its DERMALAB department, established in 2010, that is an authorized lab by the Ministry of Health for the safety evaluation of pharmaceutical, cosmetic and hygienic products.
On educational activities all the dermatology residents in the country have to attend the courses on leprosy and leishmaniasis in the center, Dr. Firouz said.
Dr. Frouz said that leporasy had been eradicated in national levels in 1992, in provincial levels in 1996 and in districts in 1997. He then described the 15-year effort for the development of a vaccine for cutaneous leishmaniasis under the supervision of WHO.
The meeting ended by the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the two centers, exchanging gifts and visiting different parts of the center before serving the lunch.
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