WHS Session H: International Joint Session (ETRS/EWMA/WHS): A Global Dialogue on Inflammation in Wound Healing

Every year, this session brings together three sister societies (ETRS, EWMA and WHS) to focus on specific topic. This year this session will focus on inflammation as a central regulator of wound healing across molecular, cellular, and clinical contexts. Through complementary topics, the speakers will explore how dysregulated immune response shapes signaling pathways that control keratinocyte behavior, drive pathophysiology and influence damage-associated molecular pattern signaling (DAMP). Together, these presentations will highlight shared mechanisms and emerging concepts that provide novel insights and potential approaches to management, therapies and diagnostics targeting inflammation.
The Role of GEF-H1/RhoA Signaling in Inflammation-Induced Keratinocyte Responses
Katalin Szaszi, MD

Inflammation in Chronic Wounds: When Healing Becomes an Immune Disease – A European Perspective on Diagnosis and Management
Damien Pastor, MD

DAMP Signaling Pathways in Wound Healing
Qing Lin, MD, PhD