Congratulations to the 2025 Mentorship Grant Award recipients! The program supports young physicians, veterinarians, & scientists (including MD, DVM, and PhD students) to develop a mentoring relationship with an established hair researcher. Info: https://t.co/AZxg9glUfn https://t.co/IaS6HJiTno (tw)

Congratulations to the 2025 Mentorship Grant Award recipients! The awards were presented at the AHRS Scientific Session & Luncheon at the AAD meeting recently. Pictured here are grant award recipients, several mentors, and several members from the Mentorship committee. Here are all the mentees, named here with their mentors: (Some not pictured) -Akriti Agrawal, MD, DNB, PDCC, Dermatology Resident Mentor: Antonella Tosti, MD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Trichoscopic findings in non-scarring alopecia -Genaro Briseño Gascón, MDm, Dermatopathology Resident Mentor: Mariya Miteva, MD, University of Miami Fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution -Alicia Edwards, MS, Medical Student Mentor: Deborah Scott, MD, Harvard Medical School Evaluating the Impact of Common Ingredients in Ethnic Hair Care Products: A Review of Benefits, Risks, and Consumer Concerns -Mitchell Hanson, BS, Medical Student Mentor: Natasha Mesinkovska, MD, PhD, University of California Irvine Effects of GLP-1 Agonists on Inflammation and Metabolism in Scarring and Nonscarring Alopecia: Population Trends and Patient Perspectives -Emilly Neves Souza, MD, Trainee Mentor: Maryanne Makredes Senna, MD, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center; Harvard Medical School, Aging hair and scalp disorders in postmenopausal women - clinical features, psychosocial impacts, diagnosis and management -Sofia Perez, BS, Medical Student Mentor: Maryanne Makredes Senna, MD, Beth Israel Lahey Health Hospital and Medical Center, Incidence and characteristics of frontal fibrosing alopecia and its clinical variants -Barbara Wiese, MD, Dermatology Resident Mentor Maria Hordinsky, MD, FAAD, University of Minnesota "Red islands", a new trichoscopic finding in FAPD -Kimberly Williams, BS, Medical Student Mentor: Amy McMichael, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Scarring alopecias and associated comorbidities in skin of color The AHRS Mentorship Program supports young physicians, veterinarians, and scientists (including MD, DVM, and PhD students) to develop a mentoring relationship with an established hair researcher in order for them to acquire additional academic or research skills that will further their careers as leaders in hair research. For more information on the program, visit: https://americanhairresearchsociety.org/mentorship-grant-program/ (fb)