Welcome Notes

Dear Colleagues,

This year, the International Society of Antioxidants in Nutrition and Health celebrates its 11 years old. Since the beginning, it has organized many national and international conferences on various subjects.

People live older thanks to new advances in medicine but they are becoming more demanding. They want to age in excellent health conditions and they want to look younger.

That’s why the Anti-Ageing Medicine seeks to find effective ways to fight against ageing and skin ageing in particular by different actions: oral or topical cosmetics, plastic surgery and the regenerative medicine with stem cells.

Oxidative stress is included in multiple diseases: cancers, Alzheimer diseases, cataract, cardiovascular diseases, and skin ageing. The use of antioxidants to avoid oxidative stress and its damages has been well documented for several years.

But nowadays, what are the recent breakthroughs in the fight against skin ageing by antioxidants?

During Malta Skin Ageing 2009, the Organizing Committee will allocate significant time to discuss the latest advancies and controversies relating to skin ageing, oxidative stress and antioxidants.

Our objective is to provide answers and to give a future vision of how antioxidants can delay and may stop the ageing of skin.

The aims of Malta Skin Ageing and antioxidants 2009 are to:

- Draft the state of the art in skin ageing

- Highlight the recent innovations in skin ageing and photo ageing

- Try to find effective strategies to prevent and slow skin ageing and photo damages by antioxidants

Malta Skin Ageing and Antioxidants 2009 will target researchers and academic professors, R&D departments, clinicians, pharmaceutical companies, food supplement companies, cosmetics companies, marketing departments, investors, start ups and all other stakeholders in the skin ageing industry.

During Malta Skin Ageing 2009, different sessions will be held:

• General Skin ageing
• Antioxidant strategies to delay skin ageing
• Technical session: the keys to manage an antioxidant skin product
• UV & Photoageing
• Solar Ingredients
• Whitening Ingredients
• Business to business sessions

A Symposium will be held on Friday afternoon dedicated to Whitening Ingredients. The aim of Malta Skin Whitening Symposium which gathers academics and industrials, is to discuss the last innovations in skin whitening and discuss the applications of potential ingredients with whitening effect.

We look forward to welcoming you in Malta for this particular event.

Pr Marvin Edeas

Chairman of the Scientific Committee