2022 Winners

Endothelial PLCG2: The missing link that makes VEGF Therapy Robust
Kanhaiya Singh

A NOVEL FIBROMODULIN-RELEASING GRANULAR HYDROGEL FOR FUNCTIONAL TENDON INJURY RECOVERY
Zhong Zheng

2021 Winners

ONCOSTATIN M IMPROVES CUTANEOUS WOUND RE-EPITHELIALIZATION AND IS DEFICIENT UNDER DIABETIC CONDITIONS
Amitava Das

Cysteine-rich Domain Of Type III Collagen N-propeptide Inhibits Fibroblast Activation By Attenuating Tgfβ Signaling
Susan Volk

2020 Winners

Lipotransfer Effectively Reverses Skin Fibrosis
Michelle Griffin

Deferoxamine Improves Wound Healing In A Mouse Model Of Delayed Healing From Pressure Injury
Lisa Tucker-Kellogg

2019 Winners

MIR-193B-3P SUPPRESSES CELLULAR MIGRATION AND CONTRIBUTES TO IMPAIRED WOUND CLOSURE IN DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS
Irena Pastar

TARGETING WNT SIGNALING TO REDUCE FIBROSIS
Britta A. Kuehlmann

2018 Winners

A COMPLEX MECHANISM OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX INDUCTION BY ER CHAPERONE CALRETICULIN AND TGF-Β FOR TISSUE REGENERATION
Leslie Gold
NYU

DESIGN AND TEST OF TARGETED LIPID-NANOPARTICLES IN BURN WOUND CARE
Subhadip Ghatak
Ohio State University

2017 Winner

Jaideep Banerjee with WHS President Marjana Tomic Canic and Awards Chair, Praveen Arany

UPREGULATION OF MIR-429 REDUCES THE PRO-FIBROTIC RESPONSE IN AN IN-VITRO MODEL OF HUMAN DERMAL MYOFIBROBLAST DIFFERENTIATION
J. Banerjee, S. Natesan, R. J. Christy
US Army Institute Of Surgical Research, San Antonio, Texas

2016 Winners

NOVEL ANTIBACTERIAL PROTEIN PERFORIN-2 IN ACUTE WOUND HEALING
I. Pastar ¹, O. Stojadinovic ¹, R. M. McCormack ², A. Sawaya ¹, D. Ajdic ¹, K. I. Garzon ¹, V. Chen ¹, R. Kirsner ¹, E. R. Podack ², N. Strbo ², M. Tomic-Canic^1
1University Of Miami, Dermatology And Cutaneous Surgery Miami, Florida, ²University Of Miami, Microbiology And Immunology Miami, FL, USA

ANTIHYPOXAMIR FUNCTIONALIZED GRAMICIDIN LIPID NANOPARTICLE RESCUES AGAINST ISCHEMIC MEMORY AND ACCELERATES WOUND CLOSURE
S. Ghatak ¹, J. Li ², Y. C. Chan ¹, S. C. Gnyawali ¹, E. Steen ¹, B. C. Yung ², S. Khanna ¹, S. Roy ¹, R. J. Lee ², C. K. Sen^1
1Ohio State University, Surgery Columbus, OH, USA, ² Ohio State University, Division Of Pharmaceutics And Pharmaceutical Chemistry Columbus, OH, USA

2014 Winners

SILVER-ZINC COUPLED BIOELECTRIC DRESSING DISRUPTS BACTERIAL BIOFILM BY TARGETING QUORUM SENSING AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE
J. BANERJEE¹, P. D. Ghatak¹, S. Khanna¹, A. Das¹, S. Roy¹, C. K. Sen^1
1Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH USA

TOPICAL MEVASTATIN AND SIMVASTATIN INDUCE ANGIOGENESIS AND ACCELERATE WOUND CLOSURE IN VIVO
S. Patel¹, I. Pastar¹, O. Stojadinovic¹, I. Jozic¹, N. Yin¹, A. Sawaya¹, J. Gil¹, S. C. Davis¹, M. Tomic-Canic^1
1University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine, Miami, FLORIDA USA

A REDOX ACTIVE BIOELECTRIC DRESSING IMPROVES HUMAN KERATINOCYTE MIGRATION
J. BANERJEE¹, P. D. Ghatak¹, S. Roy¹, S. Khanna¹, E. K. Sequin², K. Bellman², B. C. Dickinson³, V. V. Subramaniam², C. J. Chang³, C. K. Sen^1
1Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH USA, ²The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA, ³University Of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA

WOUND CLOSURE IS ACCELERATED BY CHRYSIN IN A MURINE SPLINTED CUTANEOUS EXCISIONAL WOUND MODEL
M. A. Brenner¹, A. Thompson¹, T. J. Jaraczewski¹, P. R. Pathak¹, M. Roy¹, T. W. King^1
1University Of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA

2012 Winners

SIGNIFICANT DECREASES OF THE TYPE I COLLAGEN IN THE HEALING DIGITAL FLEXOR TENDON AND THE EFFECT OF AAV2-VEGF GENE THERAPY TO REVERSE THE DECREASE OF COLLAGEN PRODUCTION: AN IN VIVO STUDY
Y. Zhou^{1, 2}, Y. Wu ^{1, 2}, X. Wang², P. Liu², J. Tang^{1, 2
1}Department Of Hand Surgery, Nantong, JIANGSU China, ²Department Of Plastic Surgery, Providence, RI USA