EB Research & Resources
Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) encompasses a group of at least 12 seperate genetic diseases of the skin and sometimes the mucous membranes. It is characterised by skin fragility with blister formation occuring spontaneously or following minor trauma. EB can be broadly divided into three major catagories that are recognised accordingly: Simplex, where cell lysis occurs in the epidermis; Junctional, where the separation occurs within the dermal-epidermal junction, and Dystophic, in which the plan of cleavage is below the basement membrane in the dermis. These catagories can be further subtyped based on inheritance and clinical features.
Official opening of new practice - The Church, 17 Kensington St, Kogarah
Saturday 17th October 2009, by Nickolas Varvaris, Mayor of Kogarah. 90 guests including colleagues, friends and family of Profs George and Dedee Murrell attended this evening event, with a string quartet, and a commemorative plaque was unveiled by the mayor of Kogarah, which over the last 15 years has been transformed into a medical mecca and Greek village within Sydney. This is where the adult patients with EB come if just for a clinic visit and the cell therapy trial has been completed.
EB 2009 Meeting in Vienna, September 2009
Professor Dedee Murrell was invited to co-chair a session on cell therapy and EB, as well as an impromptu presentation about the cell therapy trial results. People were particularly interested in how well the placebo treated sites had done, as this was the first trial of cell therapy in EB which had used a placebo control. She also had 3 posters, one on the cell therapy trial, one on the EB registry in Australia and one on Quality of Life in EB which other groups are already using in their stem cell therapy trials.
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Staff outside Prof. Murrell’s practice at the Church in Kogarah |
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Dedee Murrell and Fredi Klausseger, PhD , from the EB Haus Salzburg, with their poster on EB simplex and muscular dystrophy, presented Vienna and Budapest. |
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European Society for Dermatologic Research, Budapest, September 2009
Prof Dedee Murrell presented the preliminary results of the cell therapy trial as an oral paper at the meeting. This was very well received. She also had posters on EB and muscular dystrophy, with the EB group from Salzburg and neurologists in Melbourne, and a poster on the EB and ankyloblepharon project with Hellen Yan and the University of Santo Tomas, Manila.
Dedee invited to lecture on EB at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Prof Jasna Lipozencic, Chair of Dermatology at the University of Zagreb, and her deputy, Dr Branka Marinovich, invited Prof Murrell to visit their dept. She gave a lecture on advances in EB research from Australia. She visited their EB unit and Dr Slobodna Murat-Susic as well as one of their patients, a boy with EB and muscular dystrophy.
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European Academy of Dermatology, Berlin, October 2009
Prof Dedee Murrell was invited to speak in a symposium on pregnancy and the skin, about the results of the study conducted over the past 2 years on EB and pregnancy, by Dr Liz Intong, fellow in the Department of Dermatology, St George Hospital, UNSW and Dr Deanne Choi, started when she was an intern at St George.
Prof Murrell also gave a talk on how to take skin biopsies to diagnose EB, in the Women’s Dermatology Society symposium.
EB Resources & Downloads
Summary of Epidermolysis Bullosa Subtypes and Genetics Download
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