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- 2014-08-25The recently started 21st installment of ANTM has one special reason to tune in every week: a beautiful, striking model with vitiligo is among several contestants to compete for the honor of being next 'It Girl' in the modeling world. Chantelle Br...
- 2014-08-17In June 2014 an integrated global pharma company from India Dr. Reddys had reportedly acquired rights and re-launched lotion for vitiligo called Melgain. Generic name is Decapeptide, using the Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor or bFGF, a substance t...
- 2014-08-14A lot has happened since we decided to take a quick summer break... DESIGUAL, a fashion chain from Spain, has signed Chantelle Winnie Harlow, the world's first top model with vitiligo, as the face of its autumn-winter 2014 campaign. New York came...
- 2014-07-29Please be informed that our NY office will be closed for summer holidays from August 1st through August 15th. We will continue to receive email and voice messages but may not respond immediately. We thank you very much for your cooperation and und...
- 2014-07-29Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals, drug developer for skin diseases from Melbourne, has received an unsolicited $95 million takeover offer from a controversial biotech company Retrophin, soon after sudden passing of Clinuvel's long time director Jack Wood....
- 2014-07-29During the 6th annual conference, Mrs. Valarie Molyneaux (photo), CEO and Founder of VITFriends support group from Boston, MA has opened a letter with official proclamation from Governor of Massachusetts recognizing the World Vitiligo Day. For ful...
- 2014-06-232014 proved to be an incredible year of growth for World Vitiligo Day, all under the watchful eye of it's honorary President Dr. Davinder Parsad. This year, World Vitiligo Day came of age as a truly global event, with coordinated activities on all...
- 2014-06-20Vitiligo Clinic & Research Center at UMass (Boston, MA) has a new website. Dr. John Harris started new blog on vitiligo: 'I am a physician-scientist who focuses my clinical and research efforts on vitiligo, and therefore I think about this dis...
- 2014-06-10will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 23-24, 2015 under the chairmanship of Prof. Mira Kadurina M.D., PhD. DSc., the Head of Department of Dermatology and Allergology of the Military Medical Academy.
- 2014-06-10For World Vitiligo Day 2014, we encourage all those who wish to film themselves dancing to Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' to upload their videos to YouTube. We will be cutting them together to make a community video for World Vitiligo Day. You...
- 2014-06-01'I am the underdog and I want to prove that one can follow ones dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks.' Chantelle Young, is one of finalists on the forthcoming series of the modelling talent show the Next America's Top Model, to compete for th...
- 2014-05-28Prof. Spritz has put together an international team of scientists to find the genes that cause vitiligo. Researchers dont know what most of these genes are yet, and so we need additional patients and families to narrow the search. Find out how to ...
- 2014-05-23As of today, we have run out of the World Vitiligo Day T-shrits. Nearly 1,500 donated T-ees were mailed out to vitiligo support groups around the world in the last three weeks. But don't worry, folks: you can get your own T-shirts with this inspi...
- 2014-05-23Prof. Torello Lotti lectured at the Tufts University Medical Center in Boston on the latest research, developments and treatments in vitiligo last week.
- 2014-05-08Chantelle Brown-Young has now 107,000+ followers on Instagram as the America's Next Top Model show date gets closer. Also known as Winnie Harlow, she was recently invited back to her high school to do a motivational talk on the discrimination she ...
- 2014-05-05is now up and running at www.vitiligoistanbul.com This Master Class will offer colleagues from across the world an ideal environment to learn about recent advances, future developments and prospective research opportunities, and to exchange ideas ...
- 2014-04-28A long-standing Member of the VRF Scientific Advisory Board, Prof. Antonio Salafia passed away suddenly on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at the age of 73. He loved practicing dermatology, was deeply devoted to his patients, and greatly respected by his...
- 2014-04-24Ginko biloba extract seems to be a simple, safe and fairly effective therapy for arresting the progression of the vitiligo.The ease of taking an oral pill, the relatively low cost, and the low frequency of adverse reactions with Ginko biloba make ...
- 2014-04-22Alma Aimoldina, a master student from Astana Medical University, Department of Dermatovenereology, has traveled 750 miles from the capital city Astana in the north of the country to Almaty in the south to attend the V Master Class on Vitiligo. Tod...
- 2014-04-18In a beautiful hall of the Asfendiarov Kazakh National Medical University there was the first part of the Fifth Master Class on Vitiligo, followed by the second part at the Regional General Hospital in Shymkent, the capital of the most southern pr...
- 2014-04-10Our exclusive quarterly review of research results in the vitiligo field for the period from January till March 2014 is now available for download.
- 2014-04-08Board members, staff and over 100 supporters of the Association Franaise du Vitiligo gathered in Paris for an annual meeting on April 5, 2014. During this years meeting, the AFV President Mr. Jean-Marie Meurant, an exemplary leader of the vitiligo...
- 2014-03-28We are pleased to announce that John E. Harris, M.D., Ph.D., a distinguished vitiligo investigator from University of Massachusetts, was awarded with a grant by Dermatology Foundation to continue research on Skin-Resident Memory T Cells in Vitilig...
- 2014-03-28Chantelle Brown-Young, vibrant fashion model from Canada, vitiligo spokesperson, aspiring journalist and TV host, is making history in the latest installment of the popular reality TV show America's Next Top Model that will air this August. Chant...
- 2014-03-18Congratulations, Olumide Omololu and Ocube Interactive from Lagos, Nigeria!Not only have you won complete bragging rights, but you have also won a prize pack of 10 Tees! The VRF Board has received 12 designs for the Vi-Tee contest and narrowed the...
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