WHS Session I: Young Investigators Symposium

In this session, young investigators involved in cutting-edge research will compete for the WHS Young Investigator Award. The winner will present his/her work at the ETRS meeting. Oral presentations will feature the top eight abstracts submitted to the WHS by young investigators as well as the winner of the ETRS Young Investigator Award.

1:45 I.01 Human Genome Editing Identifies Obesity-Associated Snps As Predictors Of Wound Chronicity
Sujit K. Mohanty, Kanhaiya Singh, Rajneesh Srivastava, J. Peter Rubin, Gayle M Gordillo, Sashwati Roy, Chandan K. Sen
2:00 I.02 Mitigating Biofilm-Induced Immune Suppression To Enhance DFU Healing
Sunil Kumar, Ankit Tandon, Miguel Jorge, Imran Khan, Bryce Hockman, Kaitlyn Depinet, Beth Altenburger, Jaimee Haan, Gregory Westin, Marjana Tomic-Canic, Rivka Stone, Mithun Sinha
2:15 I.03 Advancing Scarless Healing: A Gene Therapy Approach Based On Fetal Wound Repair
Rochelle Bitolas, Melissa Tran, Madeleine Landau, Erin Brush, Alyssa Ehrhardt, Katja Koll, Kendall Reitz, David Salven, David A. Brown
2:30 I.04 Gunshot Wound-Associated Spinal Cord Injury Independently Predicts Complications After Pressure Injury Flap Reconstruction
Katherine Kozlowski, Marlynn P. Lopez, Angelica Bartler, Aneeq S. Chaudhry, Diana Griffin, Daniel A. Rabin, Nicole Ontiveros, Tarifa Adam, Robert Galiano
2:45 I.05 A Novel Lytac Approach Targets IL-1β and MMP-9 To Improve Wound Healing In Diabetes
Leah Cooksey, laden Fenercioglu, Andrea Díaz, Petar Petrov, Tomás Sobrino, Juan S. Ruiz, Holly N. Wilkinson, Matthew Hardman
3:00 I.06 Biomechanical Strain Alters Exosome Cargo and Fibrotic Signaling in Human Dermal Fibroblasts
Mary Elizabeth Guerra, Casey Baxter, Hui Li, Ling Yu, Paul Bollyky, Sundeep G. Keswani, Swathi Balaji
3:15 I.07 Catheter-Based Interventions for Venous Leg Ulcers: Safety and Outcomes
Pooja Shet, Janmesh D. Patel, Johanna Ghebrehiwet-Kuflom, Anuj Budhiraja, Alisha Mehta, Julianne Rizzo, Daniel J. Yoon, Caroline C. Liu, Daniel Link, Sara Dahle, Roslyn R. Isseroff
3:30 I.08 The Impact of Preoperative TNF-α Inhibitor Exposure on Wound Healing and Postoperative Complications in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: A Propensity-Score Matched Analysis
Aneeq S. Chaudhry, Tarifa Adam, Daniel A. Rabin, Katherine Kozlowski, Shoshana Bar-Meir, Seok Jong Hong, Robert Galiano
3:45 I.09- Understanding Confined Functions of Neutrophils in the Pathophysiology of Diabetic Wound Healing
Jonathan Kessler, Ainur Kakpenova, Sandra Franz