Research Forum 2025: Future Directions for Your TRI

The ‘Research Forum 2025’ will take place on Thursday 4^th September, 9:00am – 11:00am (ET).  This free, on-line event is exclusive to TRI Member Companies and is an opportunity to discuss future directions for your TRI.  Please take time to share your views ahead of the event in our pre-event survey.  Click here to register for the event.  You will need to set-up an account on our new members portal to register.  Click here to set-up your account.  A recording of the meeting will be available to members in the TRI Library shortly afterwards.

The Research Forum is a key opportunity for partner companies to hear first-hand the research that our experts have been undertaking and the new capabilities that have been developed in the fields of cosmetic science and personal care. You’d be joining participants from over 30 member companies worldwide to have your say in TRI Princeton’s research direction over the coming years, across hair, skin and scalp testing. The ultimate goal is for TRI to support you through conducting research that benefits both you and your business. 

The meeting format will include a series of short presentations from our Technical Directors, where you’ll have exclusive access to updates on our internal research programme and news about new equipment purchases. These will be followed by a series of discussions about possible future directions and research collaborations. 

Anyone from our member companies is welcome to take part. No question is too obvious and no idea too ridiculous. Please come along and help us build our future research and testing capabilities.

The agenda is as follows:

9:00 – 9:10 TRI Annual Report 2024 -2025 (10 min, incl. Q&A)

Dr David Graham, President

Broad-brush review of progress in the institute over the past year from David, the President.  Including feedback from the members’ survey on members’ overall satisfaction with TRI services.

9:10 – 9:25 TRI Academy (15 min, incl. Q&A)

Dr Paul Cornwell, Director, Business Development

A short review of developments in educational activities (TRI Academy), including TRI Talks, Internships, Support for Schools, TRI Library, Bite-Size Learning Articles, TRI Skin and Hair Courses, Conferences and Symposia.  Also, including feedback from members survey, and a discussion on improvements to be made.

9:25 – 10:40 Comfort break

10:40- 11:00 New Hair Claims Methods (20 min, incl. Q&A)

Dr Eleanor Lehman, Director, Hair Claims Testing

Eleanor will review the internal projects at TRI focussed on hair claims test method improvements, and the feedback from members survey on those of greatest interest to our members.   Discussions will follow on ideas for future work.

11:20- 11:40 New Skin and Scalp Claims Methods (20 min, incl. Q&A)

Dr Samuel Gourion-Arsiquaud, Director, Skin and Bio-Substrates

Samuel will review the internal projects at TRI focussed on skin and scalp claims test method improvements, and the feedback from members survey on those of greatest interest to our members.   Discussions will follow on ideas for future work.

11:40 – 12:00 New Research Consortia (20 min, incl. Q&A)

Dr Ernesta Malinauskyte, Director, Hair Research

The time has come to start talking about our next big consortium project.  We are looking for guidance from our members on potential avenues of research that will get widespread support from multiple sponsors.  Ernesta will present two ideas for new projects and analyse feedback from the members’ survey.

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For more information and to register, click here