Young Investigator Award

The Young Investigator Award is supported by a generous donation from KCI USA, Inc.

The Wound Healing Society is pleased to offer recognition to deserving young scientists in the wound healing field. The purpose of the Young Investigator Award is to underscore the importance of furthering research in the area of wound healing by recognizing and rewarding top young researchers, and by facilitating the presentation and scientific discussion of new discoveries.

Individuals chosen for consideration will present their podium abstract during the Young Investigator Session. Four winners will be selected by the Awards Committee and notified at the meeting. Each award winner will receive a monetary award, an award certificate in recognition of the high quality of their work. Also, Young Investigator Awardees will be announced and presented at the Annual Business Meeting. Photos of Awardees will be published on the Wound Healing Society website and other publications. Award recipients will receive an additional monetary award if a manuscript is submitted to the journal, Wound Repair and Regeneration within 12 months after receiving the award. 

Award Recipients can submit their manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wrr

This award is part of the Annual Meeting Abstract Submission Process.

The Young Investigator Award session qualifies for CME/CNE, CPME, CDR, CEU credits up to 2.25 hours.

Congratulations to the 8 trainees being considered for the WHS Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes top young researchers who are medical or graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or residents involved in the field of wound healing. Individuals chosen for consideration will present their podium abstract during the Young Investigator Session, Friday, May 3, 2013, 09:15 to 11:30 am. A panel of judges will select the four award winners during the  session. Winners will receive a monetary award and a certificate. Along with the Senior Author on the abstract, the winner must agree that the work described in the abstract will be submitted as a manuscript to the journal Wound Repair and Regeneration. The manuscript is to be submitted within the next 12 months after receiving the award. Upon submission of their manuscript to the Wound Repair & Regeneration Journal, and notifying the WHS, the remaining balance of the award will be sent.

Presentation of the Young Investigator Awards will be made at the Annual Meeting. We require attendance of all eight Young Investigator Abstract Presenters at this event. In addition, the 2013 first place winner will be invited to present their winning paper at the next annual meeting of the European Tissue Repair Society.     

The 2013 Young Investigator Award Nominees

Moderators: Robert Diegelmann, Harriet Hopf and Paul Liu

The WHS would like to welcome the first place winner of the 2012 European Tissue Repair Society (Athens, Greece, October 4-5, 2012) Eirini Apostolou, Ph.D. Abstract will go first in the Session. ETRS President Boris Hinz, Ph.D will introduce Eirini:
Activin-A over-expression in the murine lung causes pathology that simulates Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Eirini Apostolou - Biomedical Research Foundation Academy Of Athens, Center For Immunology And Transplantation, Athens, Greece.
IL-10 RECAPITULATES FETAL REGENERATIVE PHENOTYPE IN POSTNATAL WOUNDS BY STAT3-DEPENDENT EFFECTS ON THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX

Alice King - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center,Cincinnati, OH USA

THE PRESENCE OF STAPHYLOCOCCAL BIOFILM IMPAIRS CUTANEOUS WOUND HEALING IN A MYD88-DEPENDENT MANNER
Eugene Park - Northwestern University Feinberg School Of Medicine, Chicago,IL USA

CHANGING TREATMENT PARADIGMS: C-MYC IS A PREDICTIVE BIOMARKER OF HEALING OUTCOME OF DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS
Shailee Patel - Wound Healing & Regenerative Medicine Research Program, University Of Miami, Miami, FL

WOUND-SITE MACROPHAGES FROM CHRONIC WOUND PATIENTS REGULATES KERATINOCYTE SIGNALING
Kasturi Ganesh - Comprehensive Wound Center,Columbus, OH USA

ENGULFMENT OF APOPTOTIC CELLS INDUCES MICRORNA-21 EXPRESSION AND SWITCHES HUMAN MACROPHAGES FROM A PRO-INFLAMMATORY TO ANTI-INFLAMMATORY PHENOTYPE
Amitava Das - Comprehensive Wound Center, Department Of Surgery, Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute, ,Columbus, OH USA

NORMALIZING DYSFUNCTIONAL PURINE METABOLISM IN THE DIABETIC REGENERATIVE ENVIRONMENT ACCELERATES CUTANEOUS WOUND HEALING
Frank Lalezarzadeh - New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY USA

DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF NOVEL IN VITRO 3D COLLAGEN LATTICE MODEL TO ASSESS THE EFFECT OF MECHANO-RESPONSIVE GENES IN KELOID AND NORMAL SKIN FIBROBLASTS
Edna Suarez - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Research, University Manchester. Manchester City, Manchester, United Kingdom

SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 2 ACCELERATES WOUND HEALING IN DIABETES MICE BY PROMOTING A PARACRINE RESPONSE AND ANGIOGENESIS IN BONE MARROW-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS
Guo-You Zhang - Department Of Hand And Plastic Surgery, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital Of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, ZHEJIANG, China




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