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2023 IPCC Symposium at ISID

May 12, 2023 by Pachyonychia

With excellent presentations, a room packed with researchers, and many more standing in the back, our annual meeting of scientific collaboration to advance research and drug development for those who suffer from PC exceeded our expectations!

Date: May 10th, 2023
Time: 8:00 am to 1:00 pm, Tokyo, Japan
Location: Takao Room (42nd Floor) at the Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo, Japan

The meeting was held in person in conjunction with the First International Societies for Investigative Dermatology (ISID) Meeting in Japan.

All researchers, clinicians, and industry representatives interested in PC (and other rare conditions with painful PPK) were invited to join at no cost.

For symposium attendees, PC Project hosted a traditional Japanese dinner Tuesday, May 9th (the night before the meeting) at 6:00pm JST at Koshitsu Izakaya Banya Nishi Shinjuku, 2-6-1 Nishi Shinjuku, Sjinjuku Sumitomo Bldg. 49 Floor, Shinjuku, Tokyo 163-0249. It was a lovely evening with good company, good food, and a spectacular view.

Click here for the program book in pdf format. Below were the featured speakers for this meeting:

8:00 AM
PC Project Update
Janice Schwartz, BA
Executive Director, Pachyonychia Congenita Project
蕾 Tsubomi (Pathogenesis session)
Chair: Edel O’Toole, MD, PhD, FRCP
Professor of Molecular Dermatology, Centre for Cell Biology and Cutaneous Research, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London and Consultant Dermatologist, Royal London Hospital
8:10 AM
Palmoplantar keratodermas in 5 steps
Eli Sprecher, MD, PhD, MBH
Chair, Division of Dermatology, Deputy Director General for R&D and Innovation, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Frederick Reiss Professor of Dermatology and Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, Israel; IPCC Chair
8:30 AM
Effects of keratin gene loss on epidermal keratinization programs
Leopold Eckhart, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
8:45 AM
Experience with autograft therapy using revertant keratinocytes in severe recessive epidermolysis bullosa
Akiharu Kubo, MD, PhD
Professor, Division of Dermatology Department of Internal Related Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
9:00 AM
Neuronal control of sweat gland stem cells in the palmoplantar skin
Catherine Pei-ju Lu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Hansjӧrg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
9:15 AM
Molecular mechanisms of intermediate filament tetramerization
Christopher G. Bunick, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Dermatology Program in Translational Biomedicine, Yale University
9:30 AM
Connecting Skin Inflammation and Morphogenesis through Desmosomes
Kathleen J. Green, PhD
Joseph L. Mayberry Professor, Departments of Pathology and Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
9:45 AM
Pachyonychia congenita keratin isoforms modulate motility signals during wound healing
Benjamin A. Nanes, MD, PhD
Instructor of Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
10:00 AMBREAK – Group Photo
開花 Kaika (Therapies session)
Chair: Roger Kaspar, PhD
CSO and founder of Ayni Therapeutics
10:15 AM
Towards an in vitro model of Pachyonychia Congenita
Laura Ramos, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK
10:25 AM
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Innovations in CRISPR gene editing for epidermolysis bullosa
Joanna Jacków, PhD
Lecturer in Molecular Dermatology and Therapeutics, St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London
10:40 AM
Personalized preclinical gene editing protocols for in vivo correction of pachyonychia congenita
Marta Garcia Diez, PhD
Bioengineering Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M);  Biomedical Innovation Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT); Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER-ISCIII); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz (IIS-FJD), Madrid, Spain
10:55 AM
Gene therapy for Epidermolysis Bullosa
M. Peter Marinkovich, MD
Associate Professor Stanford University
11:10 AMBREAK
満開 Mankai (Clinical insights and disease modeling session)
Chair: Alain Hovnanian, MD, PhD
INSERM UMR1163, Imagine Institute, Department of Genetics, Necker hospital for sick children, Paris University, Paris, France
11:25 AM

Mouse models for Pachyonychia Congenita
Pierre A. Coulombe, PhD & Amanda Orosco, PhD Candidate
G. Carl Huber Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School
11:40 AM
Lessons learned from pachyonychia congenita may provide clues to the pathogenesis of hidradenitis suppurativa
Michelle Lynn Kerns, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Cleveland Clinic
11:55 AM

Erythromelalgia: A newly identified feature of pachyonychia congenita
Rebecca McCarthy, BMBS (Hons), BSc (Hons)
Clinical Fellow for Professor Edel O’Toole, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London
12:05 PM
Palmoplantar keratoderma’s in the Netherlands, a continued learning experience
Antoni Gostynski, MD, PhD
Dermatologist, Maastricht University Medical Center
12:20 PM
Complicated genetic background of palmoplantar keratoderma in Japanese: A heterozygous SERPINB7 variant is a possible modifying factor for clinical features.
Masashi Akiyama, MD, PhD
Vice Dean, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology
12:35 PM
花吹雪 Hanafubuki – Renewed commitment and a brighter future for patients!
Lunch & Symposium Adjourns
1:15PM
PC Project’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
By Invitation Only

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