Short Report of the 2^nd Symposium and the 3^rd Workshop on Intractable Itch in Juntendo University

Abstract

The Institute for Environmental and Gender-Specific Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine (the founding director; CEO Hideoki Ogawa, M.D., Ph.D.), was founded in 2002, supported by a grant of High-Tech Research Center Project for Private Universities: matching fund subsidy from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. To date, we have conducted research in environmental and gender-specific medicine and related fields with the help of visiting faculty members and many collaborators. In 2013, we were awarded a grant of Strategic Research Foundation Grant-aided Project for Private Universities from MEXT, to support our project to elucidate pathogenic mechanisms and develop preventive and therapeutic methods targeting intractable itch. To further advance this project, which remains ongoing, we held the 2nd Symposium and the 3rd Workshop from 2015 to 2016 at Juntendo University. In brief, we here report on the 2nd Symposium and the 3rd Workshop on intractable itch.