The Hair Research Society has always collaborated closely in the past with the European Hair Research Society and more recently with the Society of Hair Science Research in Japan. Due to the enormous upsurge of interest in the biology of hair growth, these three scientific societies decided to join their efforts in order to improve exchange of information on human hair growth research and to stimulate cross fertilization between scientists with an extremely varied background. Biologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, clinicians, embryologists, physicists, cosmeticists and cosmetic surgeons, skin pharmacologists and those involved in drug development and clinical evaluation of hair products were invited to the First Tricontinental Meeting of Hair Research Societies which was held in Brussels, Belgium in late 1995. The meeting was well attended and was a great success. Topics of interest to all were discussed. The proceedings of the meeting have recently been published in a book entitled Hair research for the next millennium, Van Neste DJJ and Randall VA (Eds), Elsevier Science, 1996. As a result of the widespread interest in the first meeting, it was decided that the Intercontinental Meeting of Hair Research Societies would be held every three years thereafter. The Australian Hair Research Society has now been established and will participate actively in the next Intercontinental Meeting.
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