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5ᵗʰ International Keloid Symposium – Shanghai 2025

Watch the recorded sessions from the 5th International Keloid Symposium, held in Shanghai, China · June 6–8, 2025

Day One · Friday

6 June 2025 — Opening Day

Setting the scene, genetic & translational biomarkers, overall management strategy, and abstract presentations.

Part 1, 5th International Keloid Symposium, Shanghai, China

Part 2 - 5th International Keloid Symposium | Shanghai, June 6, 2025

Abstract presentations in this recording

Novel Needle-Type Electrocoagulation and Combination Pharmacotherapy: Basic and Clinical Studies on Efficacy and Safety in Treating Keloids | Bingrong Zhou, MD, PhD

Innovative Application of Scanning, Printing and Pressure Sensors Technologies to Improve Patient Experience in Auricular Keloids Management | Ka-Wing Wong, MS, OT

Day Two · Saturday

7 June 2025 — Surgical, Non-Surgical & Radiation Therapy

Next-generation surgical approaches, non-surgical management, radiation therapy, and the Keloid Tumor Board.

Part 3 - 5th International Keloid Symposium | Shanghai, June 7, 2025

Abstract presentations in this recording

Molecular and Immune-Mechanism of Keloid Development | Yixin Zhang, MD

Asporin Inhibits Collagen Matrix-Mediated Intercellular Mechano-Communications Between Fibroblasts during Keloid Progression | Chenyu Huang, MD

BMP2-Induced Adam12+ Fibroblasts Dictate Skin Scarring and Fibrosis | Chengcheng Deng, PhD

A Data-Based Approach to a Keloid Post-Excisional Radiotherapy Treatment (PERT) Pathway | Henry Weatherburn, PhD

Case Studies of Patient Outcomes of Re-Treatment of Recurrent Keloid Tumours by Fractionated Superficial X-Ray Radiotherapy | John Glees, MD, FRCR, DMRT

Part 4 - 5th International Keloid Symposium | Shanghai, June 7, 2025

Abstract presentations in this recording

A 15 Year Single Centre Audit of the Outcome of Fractionated Superficial X-Ray Radiotherapy Treatment of Recurrent Keloid Tumours | Henry Weatherburn, PhD

Nucleoresection Combined with Punch Extraction and Radiation Therapy: a Keloid Surgical Technique Worth Promoting | Xiaodong Chen, MD, PhD

Bridging a Therapeutic Gap: Hydrocortisone Occlusion Dressing after Keloid Excision in Indonesia’s National Referral Hospital – A Case Series | Eva Chintia Yessica Manalu, BMedSc

Keloid Tumors and Telemedicine – a Patient’s Journey | Patricia Yap, MD

Day Three · Sunday

8 June 2025 — Closing Day

Pediatric keloid disorder, translational research, non-surgical advances, and closing abstract presentations.

Part 5 - 5th International Keloid Symposium | Shanghai, June 8, 2025

Abstract presentations in this recording

Integrated Multi-Omics Unveils the Epigenetic Landscape in the Pathogenesis of Keloid | Lian Zhang, MD

Multi-Omics Analyses Reveal Bacteria and Catalase Associated with Keloid Disease | Mengjie Shan, MD, PhD

Integrated Analysis of TWIST1 in Keloid Pathogenesis: Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Fibroblast Heterogeneity and a Novel MEF2A-TBR1 Regulatory Axis | Tianhao Li, PhD

Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Revealed Key Factors of EMT to Promote Fibroblast Activation and Immune Infiltration in Keloid | Yixin Sun, MD, PhD

Dual siRNAs Nanoplex Targeting IL-4RA and SPARC Enhance Collagen Reduction in IL-4 Activated Skin Fibroblasts | Yingrou Tan, PhD

Join us in Paris for the 7ᵗʰ Symposium

The 7th International Keloid Symposium will be held at Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, from 17–19 June 2027.