2010 Dupuytren's Symposium Screensaver. Mysterious, like Dupuytren's

Produced for the 2010 Miami Dupuytren Symposium with Electric Sheep and Wax Audio, this musical animation provides a background to contemplate new approaches to find a cure for Dupuytren's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOrWEYWl4fA

Miami Dupuytren Symposium spurs new research: Report from Dupuytren's Day at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Handchirurgiethe (German Society for Surgery of the Hand - DGH)

Dr Wolfgang Wach reports from the DGH, Oct 7 Dupuytren Program: "I attended the Dupuytren’s day at the Nuremberg conference of German hand surgeons and the Miami Dupuytren Symposium was pretty well covered there. Bernhard Lukas gave a review of the Miami conference and the current issue of the German hand surgeons journal which was distributed at the conference also contained a 3 page summary by Bernhard Lukas and Albrecht Meinel of the Miami conference. Lawrence Hurst presented collagenase. Albrecht Meinel presented an extended version of his Miami anatomy and his splinting papers, Bernhard Lukas presented his surgery paper, Holger Erne and Bernhard Lukas gave papers on NA, Ilse Degreef presented a summary of her papers, Hans Hennies presented an update on his genomics study and mentioned that, as result of the Miami Dupuytren Symposium, the UK, the Netherlands, and the German genomics study started cooperating and are exchanging samples. Great! I also gave a little patient talk.".
The full conference program can be downloaded at http://www.dgh-kongress.de/dgh2010/Hauptprogramm_DGH2010.pdf. The DGH web site is http://www.dg-h.de. This new joint effort of researchers is a realization of a goal of the Dupuytren Foundation: to spur global collaboration to develop better treatment options for Dupuytren's; to find a cure. It is happening.

Swimming the English Channel to Support Dupuytren's Research

Surgeons and surgeons in training brave the English Channel to raise money to support hand surgery research: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/8441861.Swimming_medics_show_surgical_spirit/ Cold! I mean ...How cool is that? Good work!

Video: I was a Teenage Myofibroblast (and I loved it!)

Before becoming the villain in Dupuytren's, the myofibroblast was really not a bad cell. What happened? What caused the change? Could it happen to you? Professor Sem Phan, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan explains almost everything in this presentation of "Mechanisms of Myofibroblast Differentiation":
http://www.youtube.com/user/DupuytrenFoundation#p/u/0/dsPwSUDrz1Y

Funding for these and other Miami Dupuytren Symposium videos at http://dupuytrensymposium.com/program.html, is provided by the Dupuytren Foundation. Support the Dupuytren Foundation with an online donation: http://CureDup.com.