Sunday 12 October 2025

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Saal 2

03.00 – 05.00 PM
IFSI SIG Global Day:
What is important for patients?
Chair: Sonja Ständer, Germany
Gil Yosipovitch, USA
03.00 – 03.20 PM
Patient organisations
Matthias Augustin, Germany
03.20 – 03.40 PM
Treat to target criteria in itch
Sonja Ständer, Germany
03.40 – 04.00 PM
Working towards a modular, validated itch questionnaire
Antoinette van Laarhoven, Netherlands
04.00 – 04.20 PM
Itch in atopic dermatitis: ethnic differences in the perception and quality of itch
Yozo ishiuji, Japan
04.20 – 04.40 PM
Psychological factors in itch
Christina Schut, Germany
04.40 – 05.00 PM
All: discussion
05.00 – 05.30 PM
Break
05.30 – 05.50 PM
Opening Ceremony
Elke Weisshaar, Germany
Martin Schmelz, Germany
05.50 – 06.10 PM
Bernhard Lecture
Andreas Kremer, Switzerland
06.15 – 06.40 PM
Kuraishi Lecture
Sarah Ross, USA
06.40 – 07.05 PM
SPECIAL INVITED LECTURE
Atopic dermatitis: from the past to the future
Kilian Eyerich, Germany
07.05 – 07.30 PM
IFSI Awards
07.30
Reception

Monday 13 October 2025

Saal 2

07.00 – 08.00 AM
Satellite Symposium
08.00 – 09.00 AM
Session 1
Plenary:
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
ocial 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 treatment concepts in dermatology
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
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
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
06.00 PM
SOCIAL AND DINNER

Forum

07.00 – 08.00 AM
Satellite Symposium
09.00 – 09.45 AM
Session 2
Translational aspects of itch
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
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
SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
03.05 - 04.25 PM
Session 5
Research: Neuroimmune mechanisms
03.05 - 03.25 PM
The basophil-neuronal axis
Fang Wang, 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

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Saal 2

07.00 – 08.00 AM
Satellite Symposium
08.00 – 09.00 AM
Session 6
Plenary Session
08.00 – 08.20 AM
Inflammatory itch, a role for cytokines
Mark Hoon, USA
08.20 – 08.40 AM
IgE-independent mast cell activation limits itchscratch reflex to preserve barrier integrity
Thomas Plum, Germany
08.40 – 09.00 AM
Mrgpr Channels in itch: from mouse to man
Xinzhong Dong, USA
09.00 – 09.45 AM
Session 7
Best of German itch CRCs
09.00 – 09.15 AM
Correlation of intra-epidermal nerve-fiber innervation depth with itch intensity in AD
Konstantin Agelopoulos, Germany
09.15 - 09.30 AM
Integrated clinical-electrical stimulation and RNA-seq identifies a pruritus-specific gene signature in AD vs psoriasis
Peter Olah, Germany
09.30 - 09.45 AM
Somatic symptom disorder: higher pruritus intensity, stress and reduced quality of life in chronic pruritus
Stefan Kahnert, Germany
10.30 AM - 12.00 PM
Session 8
Clinics: Role of Psychological factors
10.30 AM - 10.50 AM
Psyche and itch: new clinical and molecular findings
Eva Peters, Germany
10.50 - 11.10 AM
Patient acceptance and stigmatization in psoriasis
Adam Reich, Poland
11.10 - 11.30 AM
Placebo and nocebo effects in itch
Antoinette Laarhoven, Netherlands
11.30 - 11.50 AM
Itch in different age groups: Relationship with psychological factors
Christina Schut, Germany
11.50 AM - 12.00 PM
Questions & Answers
12.00 - 12.30 PM
Break
12.30 - 01.30 PM
Satellite Symposium
01.30 - 01.45 PM
Break
01.45 - 02.45 PM
Session 9
Round table Itch and pain encoding
Discussants
Ethan Lerner (USA), Matthias Ringkamp (USA), Laurent Misery (France)
01.45 - 02.05 PM
Specificity vs. pattern specificity of experimental models
02.05 - 02.25 PM
Terminology of chronic itch and pain
02.25 - 02.45 PM
Translation of itch encoding from experimental approaches to the clinics
02.45 - 03.45 PM
Session 10
Clinics:
02.45 - 03.05 PM
Chronic pruritus in older adults:
Epidemiology, associated factors, and impact on quality of life
Juliette Bollemeijer, Netherlands
03.05 - 03.25 PM
Itch in malignancy
Jacek Szepietowski, Poland
03.25 - 03.45 PM
Hematological itch
Madeline Caduc, Germany
03.45 - 04.15 PM
Break
04.00 - 05.15 PM
Session 11
04.15 - 04.35 PM
Future perspectives in basic research of itch
Martin Schmelz, Germany
04.35 - 04.55 PM
Future perspectives in treatment of itch
Martin Schmelz, Germany
04.55 - 05.15 PM
Scratching the surface no more: 20 years of IFSI advancing itch research and treatment
Gil Yosipovitch, USA
05.15 - 05.30 PM
Prizes & Closing Ceremony

Forum

09.00 – 09.45 AM
Session 7
Clinics: Best of clinical trials
09.00 – 09.15 AM
Pooled REMIX-1/-2 phase 3 data:
Early and sustained symptom improvement with remibrutinib in chronic spontaneous urticaria
Martin Metz, Germany
09.15 – 09.30 AM
Nemolizumab long-term safety and efficacy up to 104 weeks in the ARCADIA open-label extension study in adolescents and adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis
Jonathan Silverberg, USA
09.30 – 09.45 AM
Lebrikizumab provides skin clearance and itch relief at week 16 and week 52: pooled results from 2 phase 3 studies ADvocate1 and ADvocate2
Diamant Thaçi, Germany
09.45 – 10.30 AM
Break
10.30 – 12.00 PM
Session 8
Research: Itch mechanisms in inflammatory skin diseases
10.30 – 10.50 AM
Kappa opioids inhibit spinal circuits to suppress itch
Tayler Sheahan, Germany
10.50 – 11.10 AM
Novel findings on IL 31
Bernhard Homey, Germany
11.10 – 11.30 AM
Parabrachial to central amygdala:
central itch neurons
Darya Pavlenko, USA
11.30 – 11.50 AM
Itch mechanism in aged skin
Mitsutoshi Tominaga, Japan
11.50 AM – 12.00 PM
Questions & Answers
12.00 - 12.30 PM
Break
12.30 - 01.30 PM
Satellite Symposium
02.45 - 03.45 PM
Session 10
Clinics:
02.45 - 03.05 PM
The many faces of itch in India
Asit Mittal, India
03.05 - 03.25 PM
Itching in Africa
Grace Mulyowa, Uganda
03.25 - 03.45 PM
Itching in keloids and scars
Hong Liang Tey, Singapore