2022 Winners
TOPICAL TREATMENT WITH ANTAGOMIR-193b-3p ACCELERATES DIABETIC WOUND HEALING
Jelena Marjanovic
ROLE OF TYPE 1 REGULATORY T-LYMPHOCYTES IN THE REGULATION OF NEOVASCULARIZATION IN DERMAL WOUNDS
Walker Short
Mechanical Stimulation Reverses Pro-Fibrotic Transcriptional States in Senescent Fibroblasts
Jason Guo
ELEVATION OF BASELINE SKIN SENESCENCE DELAYS WOUND HEALING
Rex Jeya Rajkumar Samdavid Thanapaul
Mechanical Signaling Mediated by IQGAP1 Promotes Pathologic Foreign Body Response
Dharshan Sivaraj
Allometric tissue-scale forces activate mechanoresponsive immune cells to drive pathological foreign body response to biomedical implants
Jagannath Padmanabhan
ACTIVATION OF LASR AND SPECIFIC ENZYME DEFENSE GENES RESULTS IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA CHANGING FROM PLANCKTONIC TO BIOFILM FORMING
Jane Kim
A medium throughput 3D wound-on-a-chip screening platform to assess provisional matrix assembly during stromal wound closure
Anish Srinivas Vasan
2021 Winners
Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Regulate Th17 Activation In Diabetic Wound Cd4+ T-cells
Christopher Audu
Mechanisms Of Chronic Wound Initiation
Proma Basu
CELL THERAPY STIMULATES ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF VENOUS LEG ULCERS VIA PERFORIN-2
Vivien Chen
Inhibition Of Cysteine Protease Cathepsin K Accelerates Wound Healing In A Diabetic Porcine Model
Anne Chenchar
Trade-offs Between Antiseptic Efficacy And Cytotoxicity In A Human Ex Vivo Wound Contamination Model
Alex Cheong
Fibronectin Functionalized Collagen Scaffold Preferentially Promotes Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Proliferation And Promotes Stronger Vascular Formation Via Alpha-v Beta-3 Integrin Interactions
Kaiti Duan
Aurine Tricarboxylic Acid (ATA) Disrupts DNase-resistant Wound Biofilm Formed By Persister Clinical Isolate Bacteria
Mohamed El Masry
Aged And Apoptotic Neutrophil Derived Microparticles For Wound Healing
Gayathri Ganesh
PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA THEFT BIOFILM REQUIRES HOST LIPIDSOF CUTANEOUS WOUND
Nandini Ghosh
Photoactivated Rose Bengal Dye Induces Proliferation And Mitigates Fibrotic Phenotype In Dermal Fibroblasts
Jayson Jay
CHLORATE AND ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT DISMANTLE PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA BIOFILM AND LEAD TO HEALING OF CHRONIC WOUNDS
Jane Kim
Effect Of Senescent Cells Clearance On Wound Healing
Upasana Niyogi
Wound Reepithelialization And Inflammation Are Impaired In Perforin-2 Deficient Young And Aged Mice
Katelyn Rivas
The Impact Of Electroceutical Therapy On Acidity And Healing In Chronic Ischemic Wounds
Dhruv Seshadri
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 |
