Questions to ask on hair conference 2014

[hellouser]

So much for the thread lol, it went off on a major tangent.

To be fair, you haven't updated the list of questions either

 

[hellouser]

Its a lot better to be bald than to have cancer, heart problems, rheumatic . Than you will see that being bald is nothing compare with these diseases.

Everyone's problem is relative though.

 

[Badbald]

Hi guys, iv not posted on here before but i do think i have some food for thought for the forum and decided it was time to post.

Was just thinking would it not be a good idea to ask at the conference about future anti androgens that mite be available, i no topical ones dont make sense in some ways but maybe asking if there are any in development that either have less sides then finasteride or are more potent or both. Follica would be great if it ever were to be fully developed but it seems like thats so far down the line and still is a way off from working and being something we can actually buy. It might be good to be a little more in the know about developments that may realistically come out in the near future, maybe ask about RU and why thats not being developed by anyone, it may at least spark some interest from these guys

 

[hellouser]

I posted the following list of questions over at BTT:

Updated list of questions:


Beren Ataç/Dr. Gerd Lindner

1. If the bioreactor creates exact duplicates of follicles that function as normal follicles, is it necessary to have them go through clinical trials for implanting considering hair transplants achieve this and have been approved as a method for commercial use.
2. It's my understanding that the bioreactor is intended to create follicles for studying but if the bioreactor can make follicles why not just use the bioreactor to create new follicles and then implant those follicles into balding person's scalps?
3. How does the bioreactor work?
4. Has there been any success with the newly created follicles growing on human scalp creating thick terminal hair?
5. Are there plans to have these bioreactors available to doctors, ie; hair transplant doctors, to use and create new follicles?
6. What would the costs be for doctors to have such a bioreactor in clinics?
7. Have there been any trials done already? If so, how far have you come along? If not, when will they start?
8. Would you be willing to work on a crowd funding campaign to expedite the treatment in any country possible?
9. Does new hair created have a sebaceous gland attached to it?

Dr. Cotsarelis/Follica

1. Does the wounding method damage the scalp and dermis to the point of jeopardizing existing follicles that produce terminal hairs?
2. How far along is your wounding based therapy to treat hair loss?
3. In which Phase trial is Follica currently in?
4. When can we expect Phase III clinical trials to start for Follica?
5. How long is the wait period for the FDA to allow Follica to go commercial once the trials are finished?
6. Has the use of FGF-9 been used in the clinical trials with Follica?
7. Can the trials for Follica be fast tracked with the use of approved substances? If so, when could we see the treatment see a commercial release for the public to overcome baldness?
8. Can Follica's wounding method be repeated for increased density?
9. Does Follica's method of wounding jeopardize existing follicles?
10. Are the the current results cosmetically significant and consistent enough to represent a complete cure?
11. What is the state of PGD2 findings and a treatment for it in the interim until Follica's method is released?

ARP Sari

1. Do you have any ideas how to further increase hair inductivity despite numerous culture passes?

Aaron Gardner

1. Do you have any ideas how to further increase hair inductivity despite numerous culture passes?

Dr. Angela Christiano

1. Have there been any attempts to collaborate with the team of researchers in China that have been able to reproduce DP cells while retaining their properties along with the work of Dr. Colin Jahoda's method of reproducing Epithelial cells?
2. Would you be willing to work on a crowd funding campaign to expedite the treatment in any country possible?

General Questions For all Researchers

1. Does this treatment help people who suffer from DUTA to restore their hair?
2. Yale scientists say that fat cells under follicles signal follicles to grow hairs. Some doctors are injecting fat cells from the stomach into the scalp to try to get those fat cells to send signals to follicles to regrow hair. But the fat cells in the stomach are not actively giving off signals to the follicles to grow long thick hairs. Wouldn't it make more sense to take plugs from the patient's hair donor region where the hair is growing strong, culture the underlying fat cells, and re-inject the cultured fat cells into balding areas of the same person's scalp along with the appropriate hair cells, after culturing them as well? It is, after all, the follicles under the scalp hairs that are giving signals to the scalp follicles to grow long thick hairs.
3. To produce the follicles with desired number, size, lifespan, and the compatibility to our own scalp, what knowledge are still absent?
4. Do they know each other’s work? To what extent? Do each one of them find other's work complementary, or somewhat helpful to his own?
5. Are they willing to team up with each other, or even going forward to develop a commercial product (which would basically be a cure for hair loss), if we like them to, and may give them considerable financial aid?

 

[I.D WALKER]

Great job. I think your questions to Doctor Cots are especially masterfully arranged. I'm gong to do a little side line research regarding Christiano Gardner, and Sari. I think it wouldn't hurt to further flesh out some of their ideas even more.but this Perhaps in your inquiries to the respective persons you could even stray off a bit from the topic of their research to try to get a take on their assessment/ opinions of other research development outside their own, but this approach could also back fire and serve as an opportune smoke screen for them, so to speak.