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Mette Søndergaard Deleuran, born Kristensen, graduated from medical school at the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 1988. She was a research fellow at the Department of Dermatology, University of Aarhus from 1989 to 1991 under professor K. Thestrup-Pedersen, followed by a year in professor Marc Feldmann and professor Ravinder Mainis laboratories at the Charing Cross Sunley Research Centre and Kennedy Institute of Reumatology in London. She defended her thesis on the regulation of inflammatory cytokines related to the skin in 1994. In 1999 she became a specialist in Dermato-venereology and was appointed to a position as associate professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. The same year she established an Eczema School at the department, educating parents to children with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. The school is still active and helps patients and parents to cope with the disease, and to treat it correctly. She is also a committee member of the world wide OPENED Dermatology program, which is a patient education network for patients suffering from atopic eczema. From 2003 to 2006 she was chairman of the committee forming new guidelines for the education to become a specialist in dermato-venereology in Denmark, and administrative leader of the education program. In 2005 she was appointed Chairman of the Dept. of Dermatology, Aarhus University Hospital. In 2008-2010 she was the president of the Danish Dermatological Society. She is a member of The Danish Dermatological Society, European Society of Pediatric Dermatology, European Society for Dermatological Research, and the American Academy of Dermatology. She is a board member of the European Task Force on Atopic Dermatitis board member of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, and founding member of the International Society of Atopic Dermatitis. Her main clinical and scientific interest is related to atopic dermatitis and Mette Deleuran has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals (before 1995 under the name of Mette Kristensen). Many of the publications have been covering basal and clinical aspects of atopic dermatitis and psoriasis and she is also the author of several book chapters.

Carlo Gelmetti is a Professor of Dermatology and Venereology at the University of Milan, Italy, where he received undergraduate and post-graduate training. His other medical appointments include a position as Chief of Pediatric Dermatology Unit at the “Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico” in Milan. His areas of interest include genodermatoses, angiomas, atopic dermatitis and the history of dermatology. He is the recipient of ISPD First Prize (ex aequo) in World Congress of Pediatric Dermatology, Milan 1990; “Jean-Louis Alibert” Lectureship Award EADV Goteborg 2010; L’Oréal & Galderma International Award for Social Responsibility in Dermatology WCD Seoul 2011. Prof. Gelmetti is polyglot and has written over 300 papers published in Italian and international Journals, as well as 10 books and numerous book chapters in national and international textbooks. He served as Editorial Board Member of many Journals including Dermatology, Pediatric Dermatology, the European Journal of Pediatric Dermatology, the Journal of American Academy of Dermatology, and the Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia. Prof. Gelmetti has been also President of the Italian Society of Pediatric Dermatology. He is a member of many national and international scientific Societies; in particular he is a Board Member of the International Society of Pediatric Dermatology and European Society of Pediatric Dermatology. He is also an International Honorary Member of American Dermatological Association among others.

Head of Cell Pharmacology Laboratory, a part of the In Vitro Pharmacology Lab in the R&D department for Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmétique, Nathalie Castex-Rizzi is working around the research and the development of new cellular models for the assessment and the selection of new active ingredients and the analysis of new developed products. She obtained her PhD in cellular and functional biology of digestive process from the University X. Bichat in Paris in 1992. She completed post-doctoral trainings at the University of Arizona in Tucson (USA) and at Sanofi Laboratories in Milan (Italy). Her current research interests are Inflammation/ Immunity, Pigmentation, Wound healing, Ageing/Photobiology, Hair and Slimming. She has published several scientific articles in international reviews with great renown, and has been a key in the development of many active ingredients as many products considered as innovations in the field of dermocosmetics.

Carsten Flohr studied at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and then trained in both paediatrics and dermatology. He is the first UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinician Scientist in Dermatology and also a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Consultant at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospital London. Dr Flohr has a passion for atopic eczema research and a strong interest in population-based studies as well as clinical trials. Together with his paediatric allergy colleagues at St Thomas’ Hospital, he is currently conducting an interventional birth cohort study with 1.500 children to test the hypothesis that the introduction of potentially allergenic foods into the diet of infants from three months, alongside continued breastfeeding, results in a reduced prevalence of food allergy and other allergic diseases by three years of age (‘Enquiring About Tolerance’ (EAT) Study). The EAT Study also examines how genetic, immunological and environmental factors interact in the development of atopic eczema and food allergies. Dr Flohr is also Lead Investigator for England on an Anglo-Irish atopic eczema-food allergy genetics study, which he runs with Profs Alan Irvine (Dublin) and Irwin McLean (Dundee). Dr Flohr is a Steering Committee Member of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC), the worldwide biggest allergy study. He also chairs the Epidemiology Interest Group of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and the UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network (UK DCTN) Trial Generation and Prioritisation Panel. Dr Flohr is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology and the Clinical Trials Editor of the F1000 Atopic Dermatitis Section.

Sebastian Barbarot obtained his MD degree and qualification in dermatology in 1999. He is a physician in the department of dermatology in the University Hospital of Nantes. He developed an expertise in pediatric dermatology and clinical research through national and international collaborations. He is the head of the pediatric dermatology unit in Nantes university hospital (Pr J-F STALDER department) since 2009. He conducted many academic or clinical studies in the field of dermatology. He is a member of the French Cochrane satellite skin group and a member of the Research group of the French society of pediatric dermatology. He is a leader in in the field of educational programs and assessment of atopic dermatitis. He has been highly involved in the PO-SCORAD and Oriented Patient Education Network in Dermatology (OPENED) project. His research is also focused on AD epidemiology in preterm neonates, topical corticophobia and AD prevention. He is working on national preterm birth cohorts and will lead an academic multicentric randomized clinical trial on probiotics in AD prevention. He is also highly involved in clinical research in neurofibromatosis 1 with the French neurofibromatose network.