Following a brief introduction of the program, the competition will focus on two areas of wound research. A translational track (clinical and research studies) and a commercial track (products and devices). Participants will be solicited by a general email and must be wound healing members to participate. Each participants will have 5 minutes to present their work in a single PowerPoint slide. Presentations will be followed by Q&A from judges and a winner from each track will be announced. Track winners will receive a prize, crystal award, and 10 hours of mentorship support opportunities from Alira Health.

The purpose of this one-year Wound Healing Fellowship supported by 3M is to stimulate scientific research and career development of young investigators or junior faculty who are pursuing a career in wound healing research. In the WHF-3M Fellowship session, the 2019 awardee, Piul Rabbani, PhD from New York University School of Medicine will present her fellowship-funded research on stem cells and therapeutic exosomes.

In the WHF-3M Fellowship session, the 2021 awardee will be recognized. The 2020 awardee, Catherine B Anders, PhD from the Idaho Veteran’s Research & Education Foundation will present her fellowship-funded research on longitudinal in situ profiling of wound associated macrophage phenotypes by Q-IHC.