Monday 13 October 2025

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Saal 2

07.00 – 08.00 AM
Satellite Symposium
08.00 – 09.00 AM
Session 1
Plenary
Chairs: Matthias Ringkamp, USA | Mitsutoshi Tominaga, Japan
08.00 – 08.20 AM
Piezo 2: more than mechanically induced itch
Gary Lewin, Germany
08.20 – 08.40 AM
Potassium channels as antipruritic targets
Achim Schmidtko, Germany
08.40 – 09.00 AM
Expression of pruriceptors
Jannis Körner, Germany
09.00 – 09.45 AM
Session 2
Young Investigator Council Session
The mechanisms of itch contagion
Anastasiia Myronenko, Netherlands
Role of the spinal cord in chronic itch
Miho Shiratori-Hayashi, Japan
Microbe-neuron crosstalk in itch and inflammation
Liwen Deng, USA
Periostin in Atopic Dermatitis-Associated Hypersensitivity
Josh Wheeler, USA
Social anxiety, neuroinflammation and itch in psoriasis
Marcel Schepko, Germany
Experimental profiling of itch patients and anti-pruritic drugs
Silvia Lo Vecchio, Denmark
10.00 – 10.30 AM
Break
10.30 AM – 12.30 PM
Session 3
Clinics: New aspects and treatment concepts
Chairs: Sarina Elmariah, USA | Thomas Mettang, Germany
10.30 - 10.50 AM
CKD-aP: challenges in clinics and therapy
Jörg Latus, Germany
10.50 - 11.10 AM
Chronic urticaria
Petra Staubach, Germany
11.10 - 11.30 AM
Chronic prurigo
Sonja Ständer, Germany
11.30 - 11.50 AM
Is chronic itch a public health problem? Epidemiology of chronic itch around the world
Christian Apfelbacher, Germany
11.50 AM - 12.00 PM
Questions & Answers
12.30 - 01.30 PM
LUNCH SYMPOSIUM
Decoding Chronic Itch and More in PN:
Implications of Real-World Data for Clinical Practice
Prof. Dr. Matthias Augustin, Hamburg
Sarina Elmariah, MD, PhD, MPH, San Francisco
01.30 - 01.45 PM
Break
01.45 - 02.45 PM
Session 4
Plenary session: New drugs and treatment concepts
Chairs: Ulrike Raap, Germany | Emilie Brenaut, France
01.45 - 02.05 PM
A pooled analysis from the RESPONSE and ENHANCE studies
Andreas Kremer, Switzerland
02.05 - 02.25 PM
Results of the APHYPAP clinical study
Christelle Le Gall-Ianotto, France
02.25 - 02.45 PM
Guidelines on itch
Elke Weisshaar, Germany
Claudia Zeidler, Germany
02.45 - 03.05 PM
Break
03.05 - 04.25 PM
Session 5
Clinics: Unmet needs in pruritus medicine
Chairs: Suephy Chen, USA | Christian Apfelbacher, Germany
03.05 - 03.25 PM
Neuropathic itch
Sarina Elmariah, USA
03.25 - 03.45 PM
Registry data
Mathias Augustin, Germany
03.45 - 04.05 PM
Device based physical therapies
Simon Müller, Switzerland
04.05 - 04.25 PM
Molecular pharmacological analysis of 15 psychotropic drugs in pruritus modulation:
Implications for atopic dermatitis
Koichi Miyakawa, Japan
04.25 - 04.40 PM
Break
04.40 - 05.00 PM
IFSI GENERAL ASSEMBLY
05.00 - 05.30 PM
IFSI BOARD MEETING

Forum

07.00 – 08.00 AM
Satellite Symposium
09.00 – 09.45 AM
Session 2
Translational aspects of itch
Chairs: Martin Metz, Germany | Hiroyuki Murota, Japan
09.00 – 09.15 AM
Neglected dimensions: Do large language models truly grasp key quality-of-life concerns in chronic itch management?
Ahmet Uğur Atilan, Turkey
09.15 – 09.30 AM
Broad deployment of the ItchyQuant reveals disparities in care access and follow-up in patients with itch
Rene Chen, USA
09.30 – 09.45 AM
Dupilumab for itch on prurigo chronica multiformis: A pilot case study
Tsukasa Ugajin, Japan
10.30 – 12.00 PM
Session 3
Research: Pathobiology of itch
Chairs: Sarah Ross, USA | Martin Steinhoff, Qatar
10.30 – 10.50 AM
Spatial transcriptomics in keloids
Yingrou Tan, Singapore
10.50 – 11.10 AM
Itch-specific neuronal clusters and druggable pathways in human DRGs
Tyler Beck, USA
11.10 – 11.30 AM
Neurons for itch
Jürgen Solinski, Germany
11.30 – 11.50 AM
DRG-neuron expression in atopic dogs
Santosh Mishra, USA
11.50 AM – 12.00 PM
Questions & Answers
12.00 - 12.30 PM
Break
12.30 - 01.30 PM
ITCH IN FOCUS: Unraveling the Neuroimmune Web of itch in Atopic Dermatitis
Prof. Dr. S. Ständer, Münster
Prof. Dr. M. Metz, Berlin
03.05 - 04.25 PM
Session 5
Research: Neuroimmune mechanisms
Chairs: Xinzhong Dong, USA | Konstantin Agelopoulos, Germany
03.05 - 03.25 PM
The basophil-neuronal axis
Fengxian Li, China
03.25 - 03.45 PM
Eosinophils in itch
Ulrike Raap, Germany
03.45 - 04.05 PM
Epidermal innervation
Dai Hyun Kim, South Korea
04.05 - 04.25 PM
Neuroimmun mechanisms in Rosacea
Martin Steinhoff, Qatar
04.25 - 04.40 PM
Break
06.00 PM SOCIAL AND DINNER