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May 15, 2021 - 11:30 - 12:30 PM
1st WHF-Medline Research Innovations Award and Lecture
Gaylord Texan, Dallas, Texas

WHF-Medline Research Grant Innovation Award

The purpose of the award is to stimulate innovative wound healing product development. This is a one year, $30,000 grant awarded to a young investigator doing research in wound healing in the United States. Applications should be innovative and likely have the ability to be commercialized in the future.
Deadline for Submission - January 11, 2021.

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  • WHF President Laura K. S. Parnell with WHF Graciousness in Giving Medline representative Margaret Halstead, 1st WHF-Medline Research Innovation Award recipient Ivan Jozic, Medline representatives Tom Koshy and Debashish Chakravarthy
  • WHF President Laura K. S. Parnell and MiMedx representative Ray Ortega
  • Representatives from the Wound Reach Foundation Tom Whelan, Shannon Mitchel, Barbara Bates-Jensen, 2017 WHF Clinical Flash Grant recipient Swathi Balaji, and WHF President Laura K. S. Parnell.
  • WHF Poloxamer Grant recipient David Sharp and WHF President Laura K. S. Parnell.

  • Clinical grant recipient Joshua Ngwang Menang with grateful patients in Cameroon, Africa.

  • Medline representative Debashish Chakravarthy, chitosan grant recipient Louis Born and WHF President Laura K. S. Parnell

  • (back row) WRF representatives Barbara Bates-Jensen, Arthur Stone, and Scott Donnelly with (front row)clinical grant recipient Linda Benskin and WHF President Laura K. S. Parnell
  • Cardinal Health representative Scott Donnelly with wound economics grant recipient Paul Liu and WHF President Laura K. S. Parnell

Grant Information

Grants are given dependent on the availability of funds and quality of submissions. Details about the grants awarded are below. To help provide grant funding, please go to our donate page to make a donation today.

Evidence gaps - The Wound Healing Foundation is developing grants to enhance basic and clinical research in the wound healing field. Even though wounds have been present for thousands of years, many knowledge and evidence gaps still exist. The purpose of these grants are to assist in improving the evidence base on which wound healing research is based on. Our goal for this program is to award grants that specifically address evidence and treatment gaps.

Scientific advancement - The Foundation also provides research recognition grants to help assist outstanding researchers in other wound healing areas.The purpose of these grants are to help stimulate and recognize unique areas of wound research that are being performed to further advance the science. Our goal for this program is to award grants that are scientifically creative and can advance the science of wound healing.

Innovative Grants Program - The Foundation is positioned to expand its research program through additional research grants, fellowships and awards. There is a continuing need to fund new and established investigators engaged in cutting edge research to generate pilot data leading to new innovations to advance the basic and clinical science of wound healing. Our goal for this program is to award grants beginning at or above $10,000. Go to our donate page to make a donation today.

WHF Research Grant recipients are:

2020 2nd WHF-Medline Research Grant Innovation Award
Indranil Sinha, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Application of nanosheet culture-free autologous stem cell transplantation in murine wounds
2019 1st WHF-Medline Research Grant Innovation Award
Ivan Jozic, PhD
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Targeting Caveolin-1 by Methyl-Beta-Cyclodextrin for Treatment of Non-Healing Chronic Wounds Read & Learn More
2017 Flash Clinical Wound Healing Grant sponsored by Wound Reach Foundation
Swathi Balaji, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children's Hospital
Crosstalk between regulatory T-cells and fibroblasts in the pathogenesis of cutaneous fibrosis and scarring Read & Learn More
2016 Hyaluronic Acid in Wound Healing Grant sponsored by Medline Industries
Kristo Nuutila, MSc, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Growth Factor Containing Hyaluronic Acid Gel for Hair Follicle Transplantation Read & Learn More
2016 Concentrated Poloxamers in Wound Healing Grant sponsored by Medline Industries
David Sharp, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Excisional and Burn Wound Healing via Depletion of the Novel Microtubule Regulatory, Fidgetin-like 2 Read & Learn More
2015 Clinical Wound Healing Research Grant sponsored by Wound Reach Foundation
Linda Benskin, Ph.D., RN
Independent Nurse Researcher
Leander Church of Christ
A Test of the Safety, Effectiveness, and Acceptability of an Improvised Dressing for Sickle Cell Leg Ulcers in a Tropical Climate Read & Learn More
2015 Clinical Wound Healing Research Grant sponsored by Wound Reach Foundation
Joshua Ngwang Menang, RN
CALMEF Health Centre, Cameroon
Maximizing readily available resources in enhancing the quality of lives of people with diabetes through prompt, realistic and appropriate diabetic foot ulcers/ wound intervention approach Read & Learn More
2015 Chitosan in Wound Healing Grant sponsored by Medline Industries
Louis Born, B.S. Sponsor John Harmon, M.D.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Topical Gene Delivery Using a Chitosan Complex to Accelerate Wound Healing of the Skin Read & Learn More
2015 Wound Care Economics Research Grant sponsored by Cardinal Health
Paul Y. Liu, M.D.
Lifespan Hospitals/Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Devising a cost-effective approach to using hyperbaric oxygen therapy in treatment of diabetic foot ulcers Read & Learn More
2002 2002 Research Recognition Grant sponsored by WHF
Xavier Lauth, Ph.D.
Sponsor Victor Nizet, M.D.
University of California San Diego, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease
Innate immunity to bacterial skin and wound infection

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For more information on awards, contact H. Paul Ehrlich, chair of the WHF Award Committee, at awards@woundhealingfoundation.org.