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becoming more common as the process becomes easier to do. In fact, they are becoming almost too easy to do as, according to Dr Wickett, there are a number of issues with gene expression studies that are as yet unresolved. One of the major ones is the fact that, for instance, maybe you have a good gene that is up-regulated, it does not necessarily mean you have made more protein, it just means you have made more messenger RNA, you have just expressed the gene more. So you need to check that you have made more protein, and you need to check that you have got the biological effect you were looking for. The only way to find out if it really works
is on people. There are a lot of actives that work in culture that do not work in a complex biological system, so it is vital for claim substantiation that you carry out in vivo studies. Dr Wickett continued to speak specifically about anti-ageing studies and the importance of monadic testing and optimising study design while controlling study costs. Another Keynote lecture on the opening
day was from Deputy Surgeon General Maj. Gen. Krisada Duangurai MD, of Promongkut Hospital, Thailand. His speech was entitled ‘Effectiveness and impacts of cosmeceuticals in dermatology’ and explained that new technology has aided new discoveries in the field of cosmetics, in areas such as antioxidants, peptides, growth factors, cytokines, and other signalling molecules. Dr Duangurai also gave a definition of the term ‘cosmeceutical’, explaining that unlike drugs, there is not a requirement for clinical trials for cosmeceuticals, but whereas it was accepted that there may be side effects with a drug, this was not acceptable for a cosmeceutical. So, in many ways cosmeceuticals need to have similar results to a drug, but without any side effects.
Posters Outside of the seminar theatre, the IFSCC Conference’s poster sessions were another excellent opportunity for delegates to learn directly from some of the industry’s leading scientists. The range of posters was extensive and included work from finished product companies such as L’Oréal, Unilever and Shiseido. Highlights of the posters included
‘The inhibition of proteases involved in the exogen process in a range of ethnic groups’ from Unilever R&D Centre, China, which looked at the problem of hair loss and a possible way of increasing the anchoring force of hair fibres via a combination of Trichogen and climbazole to inhibit protease activity.
14 PERSONAL CARE March 2012 Another interesting poster was
‘Evaluation of the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of native Brazilian bamboo species for future use in cosmetics’ by a team from various academic centres in Sao Paulo. The poster concluded that the A. simplex extracts presented highly promising antioxidant activity and could be considered a candidate for further studies in cosmetic preparations. The antimicrobial potential was more limited but could still help with reducing the amount of chemical agents in formulations.
Awards During the Gala Banquet, awards were presented to the authors of the best research papers of 2011. Shiseido Research Centre and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai University, took the award for the best paper for their paper titled ‘Development of self-dissolving microneedles consisting of hyaluronic acid as an anti-wrinkle treatment’. The authors of this paper were: Yukiko Matsunaga, Shigeyoshi Fujiwara, Yuichiro Mori, Akiko Miyake, Haruyo Yomanishi, Madoka Kage, Yoshihiro Tokudome, Fumie Hashimoto and Takeshi Hariya. Theeraya Krisdaphong won the inaugural Henry Maso Award for her paper titled ‘Antimicrobial activity of
Garcina mangostana extract for anti-acne’, while the MG de Navarre Young Scientists Prize went to Pinky Purohit for her article titled ‘The social role of cosmetics’. The president, Panvipa Krisdaphong,
presented The Lester Conrad Award to the Indonesian Society for their proposed educational programme for 2012. She then presented the Past President Scroll to the retiring immediate past president, Gavin Greenoak (Australia). She also thanked those retiring from the Praesidium: Hartmut Schmidt-Lewerkuehne from Germany (chair of the Publications Committee) who had also chaired the PR Committee prior to his current role, and Judi Beerling (UK) who had carried out the role of hon. secretary and then treasurer of the IFSCC. The president welcomed the new Praesidium members - committee member No 1 – Philippe Auderset from Switzerland, treasurer Susan Hurst from the UK and chair of the Publications Committee, Andrea Weber from Germany.
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Coming next The 27th IFSCC Congress will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the Sandton Convention Centre from 15-18 October 2012. For more detailed information on the Congress visit:
www.ifscc2012.co.za
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