Young Investigator Award

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

About the Young Investigator Award

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.

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

The 2012 Young Investigator Award

This 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, April 20, 2012, 09:15 to 11:30 am. A panel of judges will select the four award winners during the YI 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 and upon submission of their manuscript to the Wound Repair & Regeneration Journal, the official journal of the Wound Healing Society and notifying the WHS, the remaining balance of the award will be sent.

The top four presenters will be announced at the WHS Business Meeting and reception on Saturday, April 21 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. Presentation of the Young Investigator Awards will be made at that time. We require attendance of all 8 YI Abstract Presenters at this event. In addition, the first place winner will be invited to present their winning paper at the next annual meeting of the European Tissue Repair Society in Athens, Greece, from October 4-5, 2012.     
 

Congratulations Young Investigator Award Nominees     

The WHS would also like to welcome the first place winner of the 2011 European Tissue Repair Society (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 5-7, 2011)

Impaired bone function and dwarfism in mice lacking collagen-binding integrins α2β1 and α11β1 is caused by severely diminished IGF-1 levels
Katrin Blumbach – Dermatology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

2012 WHS Young Investigator Nominees

LENTIVIRAL MEDIATED IL-10 OVEREXPRESSION ENHANCES WOUND HEALING VIA STAT3 DEPENDENT INCREASE IN ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELLS
Swathi Balaji - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Center For Molecular Fetal Therapy, Cincinati, OH, USA 

REDUCING FLIGHTLESS PROTEIN IMPROVES SCARRING IN AN ANIMAL MODEL
Alexander Cameron - Women's And Children's Health Research Institute, Adelaide , SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Australia

TRANSIENT DOWN-REGULATION OF MICRORNA-200B TURNS ON WOUND ANGIOGENESIS VIA DE-SILENCING GATA2 AND VEGFR2
Yuk Chan - The Ohio State University, Colubmus, OH, USA

MACROPHAGE MFG-E8 HELPS RESOLVE WOUND INFLAMMATION
Amitava Das - Comprehensive Wound Center, Columbus, OH, USA

MODULATION OF SPECIFIC WOUND PARAMETERS LEADS TO DEVELOPMENT OF CHRONIC ULCERS IN MICE DEFICIENT IN THE TNFSF14/LIGHT GENE
Sandeep Dhall - Bioengineering Interdepartmental Graduate Program, Riverside, CA, USA

ENDOTHELIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN DERMAL FIBROBLASTS
Johan Junker - Division Of Plastic Surgery, Brigham And Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

PGLCNAC NANOFIBERS STIMULATE A SCARLESS WOUND HEALING PROGRAM
Haley Lindner - Department Regenerative Medicine And Cell Biology, Medical University Of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKADE OF ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTORS (A2AR) DIMINISHES SCARRING
Miguel Perez-Aso - New York University School Of Medicine, New York, NY, USA 

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