Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for Photobiomodulation,Photomedicine,and Laser Surgery

The Rosalind Franklin Society (RFS), in partnership with Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, enthusiastically congratulate our distinguished recipient of the 2022 annual RFS Award in Science for this journal, which recognizes the outstanding research and published work of women and underrepresented minority scientists, physicians, and engineers.

Ana Cláudia Scarpim, Alessandra Baptista, Daniel Souza Ferreira Magalhães, Silvia Cristina Nunez, Ricardo Scarparo Navarro, and Amanda Farage Frade-Barros, “Photobiomodulation Effectiveness in Treating Androgenetic Alopecia,” Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery 40, no. 6 (June 2022): 387–394, http://doi.org/10.1089/photob.2022.0011.

Abstract

Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is a genetically determined condition, which leads to progressive hair loss (HL) of the vertex, affects hair follicles, and promotes partial or total HL. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of photobiomodulation (PBM) in patients with AGA. Twenty-five men 20–54 years of age participated in this study. The irradiations were punctual, in contact mode, with 1 cm between each point covering the entire affected area. A red low-level laser (λ = 660 nm) (Recover^®, MMOptics, São Carlos, Brazil) was used with 100 mW, 30 sec, and 3 J per point, twice a week on alternate days for 10 weeks. Evaluations were made by photographic records from the same area before any intervention (T1), after 5 weeks (T2), after 10 weeks (T3). Two blinded evaluators using the ImageJ^® software assessed the hair density. The hair density evaluation showed a significant increase in hair count between T1 and T2 and between T1 and T3; however, between T2 and T3, no statistical difference was found.

Biosketch

Amanda Farage Frade-Barros has more than 20 years of experimental research and seven years in clinical trials. She received her PhD in sciences at the Allergy and Immunology Laboratory at the USP School of Medicine. During the five years she worked as a research scientist and professor in the Department of Bioengineering of the Universidade Brasil she worked with photobiomodulation and photodynamic therapy in more than 10 different master's and PhD students' projects. She is also a specialist in traditional Chinese medicine. Currently, she works as a specialist in evidence generation and publication at Takeda Industry and she is professor collaborator in the Department of Bioengineering at the Universidade Brasil, and Laboratory of Allergy and Immunopathology of Heart Institute at USP.