Welcome!

This is the homepage of the RegiSCAR project dedicated to severe cutaneous adverse reactions. As this is an evolving project this site is permanently under construction. Main task of the project is to establish a scientific network of people interested in severe cutaneous adverse dug reactions (SCARs) like Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN), acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) and drug hypersensitivity syndrome with systemic symptoms (DRESS, HSS, DIHS) maintain anongoing multinational registry of such cases (and thus contributing to pharmacovigilance) and collect biological samples to study the pathomechanisms (and genetic background) of these diseases.
Phase I of the RegiSCAR project is partially supported by the European Community (Project No: QLRT-2001-01738) and was conducted in Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Italy and the Netherlands. Actually we are expanding our network to other countries like South Afrika, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Vientnam.

Disclaimer: all information presented on this website is for scientific purposes only. Members of the project hold no responsibility for any actions taken outside the defined realms of this project. The members of this project shall not be made responsible for any contents of external links.

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The last meeting of the group took place in Bergamo, Italy from January 20th to 23rd. 2010.
The next meeting of the German expert committee for validation of cases will take place in Mainz, Germany from March 22nd to 23rd, 2010.

SAVE THE DATE:
At the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the dZh (Dokumentationszentrum schwerer Hautreaktionen) a Symposium will take place in Freiburg, Germany on June 4th 2010.


READ AN INTERVIEW ON THE PROJECT ON THE ORPHANEWS WEBSITE (January 2006 issue of the newsletter of the European Rare Diseases Task Force).