2020 Winners

Epigallocatechin-3-gallate Primed Human Wharton’S Jelly Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Seeded Hydrogel Construct Improves Healing Of Thermal Burns
Hira Butt

The Interaction Of Microbial Virulence With Age Alters The Keratinocyte Wound Healing And Inflammatory Response
Laurice Flowers

HOST SKIN LIPIDS ENABLE BIOFILM PATHOGENICITY COMPROMISING FUNCTIONAL CUTANEOUS WOUND CLOSURE
Nandini Ghosh

Deep Learning For Automated Segmentation Of Skin Wounds
Jake Jones

Host Biofilm Interaction In Breast Implant Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
Imran Khan

High Levels Of Os Are Critical For Bacterial Biofilm-Development In Diabetic Chronic Wounds
Jane Kim

Beta-catenin Activation In Cardiac Fibroblasts Modulates The Immune Micro-environment To Promote Fibrosis And Heart Failure Following Chronic Injury
Meiling Melzer

Comparative Transcriptomics Of Human Diabetic Foot Ulcers And Diabetic Mouse Wounds Reveals Limited Overlap
Sydney Resnik

Single-cell RNA-sequencing Identifies Novel Molecular Targets Of Endothelial MicroRNA-200b In Ischemic Wound
Kanhaiya Singh

Quantitative Assessment Of Anatomical, Physiological And Mechanical Parameters Of Cutaneous Wound Healing And Scarring In Human Skin
Sara Ud-Din

2019 Winners

WHS Awardees:
TOPICAL CROMOLYN SODIUM REDUCES POST-BURN HYPERTROPHIC SCARS IN FEMALE RED DUROC PIGS
Jayson Jay

FIBROSIS AROUND IMPLANTS IS DRIVEN BY THREE UNIQUE SUBGROUPS OF MACROPHAGES
Clark Bonham

MIR-210 ENCAPSULATED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES CONTRIBUTES TO ISCHEMIC INJURY OF THE SKIN
Ayan Biswas

MELANOCYTE RE-POPULATION AND CUTANEOUS RE-INNERVATION IN TEMPORAL WOUND HEALING AND SCAR FORMATION IN HUMAN SKIN
Sara Ud-Din

Wiley Awardees:
BIOMIMETIC ADIPIOSE STEM CELL DRESSING FOR SKIN REGENERATION
Artem Trotsyuk

PLGF-1 CONTAINED IN NORMAL WOUND MYOFIBROBLAST-DERIVED MICROVESICLES STIMULATES COLLAGEN PRODUCTION BY DERMAL FIBROBLASTS
Syrine Arif

WHF Awardees:
BIOFILM INFECTION DYSREGULATES CERAMIDE METABOLISM COMPROMISING FUNCTIONAL WOUND CLOSURE OF THE SKIN
Nandini Ghosh

A MICROBIOME AND METABOLOMIC SIGNATURE OF PHASES OF CUTANEOUS HEALING IDENTIFIED BY PROFILING SEQUENTIAL ACUTE WOUNDS OF HUMAN SKIN
Mohammed Ashrafi

LOW MICRORNA-21 IN DIABETIC WOUND MACROPHAGES IMPAIR RESOLUTION OF INFLAMMATION
AMITAVA Das

2018 Winners

WHS Awardees:
VALIDATION OF BIOFILM FORMATION ON HUMAN WOUND MODELS AND CONFIRMATION OF THEIR USABILITY IN SKIN-RELEVANT BIOFILM STUDIES
Mohammed Ashrafi
The University of Manchester,

GRANZYME K IMPAIRS WOUND HEALING
Christopher T. Turner
University of British Columbia

TRANSDERMAL DEFEROXAMINE ENHANCES WOUND HEALING IN AGED MICE
Clark A. Bonham
Stanford

WT1 TRANSCRIPTS ARE ALTERNATIVELY SPLICED AND M1 CYTOKINE INDUCIBLE IN PALMAR FASCIA FIBROBLASTS
John Luo
University of Western Ontario

Wiley Awardees:
PHYSIOLOGICAL CELL REPROGRAMMING AT THE SITE OF TISSUE INJURY CRITICAL ROLE OF MIR-21
Mithun Sinha
The Ohio State University,

OUTCOME ANALYSIS OF HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY IN DIABETIC WOUNDS AND RELATED GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS
Vikram G. Mookerjee
Rhode Island Hospital

EPITHELIAL HYPOXAMIR MIR-210 DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTES TO ISCHEMIC SKIN INJURY
Ayan Biswas
The Ohio State University

ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTS BIOFILM VIABILITY, METABOLISM, BIOMASS AND VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND PROFILES
Mohammed Ashrafi
The University of Manchester

WHF Awardees:
PF PHAGE IN CHRONIC PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA WOUND INFECTIONS
Michelle Bach
Stanford University

EPIGENETIC MAPPING OF WOUND EDGE FROM CHRONIC WOUND PATIENTS USING NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING
Kanhaiya Singh
The Ohio State University

MECHANICAL EDUCATION IN VITRO ENHANCES REGENERATIVE CAPACITIES OF HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS IN VIVO
Jorge Walraven
University of Toronto

2017 Winners

Winners
Ayan Biswas
Mariana Cerqueira

2016 Winners

Winners
Le Qi
Mohammed Ashrafi
Ana Tellechea
Lauren Buchanan

2012 Winners

Winners Jaideep Banerjee Jerry S. Chen Rasheeda D. Crowell Tom Hodgkinson Julia Minkiewics Irving Jose Zamora

Runner Ups Alexander MacGregor Cameron Sandeep Dhall Johan Per Emil Junker Miguel Perez-Aso

2011 Winners

Winners Rania Abubaker Ali Bagabir Yuk Cheung Chan Noriko Hattori Michael Januszyk Kristine C. Rustad Akhil K. Seth Jordan P. Steinberg Jordan Stern

Runner Ups Yu Jiaao Parit Patel

2010 Winners

Winners Parag Butala Keijiro Hori Denis Knobel Louis D. Le

Runner Ups Florian Hackl Elizabeth Kiwanuka Elizabeth Lebrun Irena Pastar Benjamin Roman Kristine Rustad Jennifer Velasco Joshua Vorstenbosch Janelle Wagner Jie-Mei Wang

2009 Winners

Winners Hasan Alajmi Robert Allen Mary Cloud Ammons Praveen Arany Swathi Balaji Mark Carlson Tatiana Demidova-Rice Corrie Gallant-Behm Elizabeth Grice Taehee Kwak Ling Tang Joshua Vorstenbosch

Runner Ups Selma Cetin-Ferra Taro Koyama Kenrick Kuwahara Yiqun Mo