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FRT - Fondation René Touraine (FRT) awards every year 5 fellowships to hospital-based clinical dermatologists and pre or post doctoral research fellows for international exchanges between laboratories, one of which must be European. FRT grants each year a long-exchange fellowship of 18 000€ and up to 4 short-exchange fellowships of 4 500€.

You will find here enclosed a poster with the Fellowships Announcement for 2016

The deadline for submitting applications is the
1st October 2016.
Please disseminate this information as you find appropriate.
Click here for rules and eligibility



FELLOWSHIPS WINNERS 2015
  
  • 18 000 € Fellowship for a long-exchange

Tiago REIS MATOS
Project: Tracking the pathogenic T cell clones in Graft-versus-Host-Disease
From: Dept. of Dermatology, Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, Birgham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston - USA (Dr. Rachael Clark)
Host laboratory: Dept. of Dermatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam - Netherlans (Prof. Menno A. de Rie)


  • 4 500 € Fellowships for a short-exchange
Glenn GEIDEL
Project: Role of HGF-level dependent MET inhibition for local response and distant dissemination in patient-derived xenograft models
From: Dept. of Dermatology, University Hospital Münster - Germany (Prof. Dr. Karin Loser)
Host laboratory: Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston - USA (Prof. Rakesh K. Jain)



Su Mar LWIN
Project: Phase I study of lentiviral-mediated COL7A1 gene-modified autologous fibroblasts in adults with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
From: Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College London School of Medicine (Prof. John McGrath)
Host laboratory: Laboratory of Genetic Skin Diseases, Dept. of Genetics, Necker Hospital, Paris - France (Prof. Alain Hovnanian)



Stamatina VERYKIOU
Project: Deciphering the effect of CD271 knockdown on melanoma invasion and metastasis
From: Institute of Cellular Medicine Dermatological Sciences, Medical School of Newcastle University, Newcastle - UK (Prof. Penny Lovat)
Host laboratory: Dept. of Cellular and Devlopmental Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome - Italy (Prof. Mauro Piacentini)



Katharina WÖSS
Project: Evaluating highly branched poly(β-amino ester)s as a potent vector delivery system for therapeutic trans-splicing molecules in epidermolysis bullosa-associated skin cancer
From: Dept. of Dermatology, University of Salzburg - Austria (Prof. Dr. Johann Bauer
Host laboratory: The Charles Institute of Dermatology, School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin - Ireland (Dr. Wenxin Wang)





The Fondation René Touraine (FRT) is an international non-profit organisation, founded in 1991, with the main goal of supporting therapeutic progress in the field of dermatology at the international level. In order to achieve this goal, the FRT counts with the precious help 
of 103 European and international renown experts in dermatology that work within FRT’s Scientific Committees.

FRT is pursuing its 
efforts to improve healthcare to patients affected by skin diseases, in particular those in developing countries, especially by its involvement in the following main actions
  • developing a collaborative network focusing on patient needs for rare skin diseases gathering some 100 teams across all European countries and preparing a European Reference Network on rare diseases in dermatology, in partnership with Mediterranean countries (Genodermatoses Network)
  • improving access to quality care for patients suffering from psoriasis through the Psoriasis International Network, which gathers some 4700 dermatologists and 40 patient associations across 100 countries
  • enhancing continuing medical education in dermatology, by developing and updating the online free reference book Therapeutics in Dermatology, an e-dermatology portal with over 13 000 registered health professionals and open to partnerships with pharmaceutical and cosmetical industries willing to support therapeutic progress in dermatology.

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