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Directors of NIH-sponsored wound healing centers meet
(left to right) back row: Harmon, Chen, Baird, Engeland, Mustoe, Stewart; middle row Zhang, Semenza, Eliceiri, Marucha, Ikeda, Schrementi; front row: James, Gallant-Behm, DiPietro, Liu, Wei. - On Dec.14, 2007, the principal investigators and research associates from Innovative Wound Healing Centers that are supported by National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) P20 grants came to UIC Wound Healing Center for their inaugural annual meeting in Room 501 of the College. In the morning, each lab had a chance to present its research progress, and in the afternoon the group came together to discuss common goals and questions. The meeting was chaired by Rick Ikeda, the NIGMS program officer that oversees the P20 Wound Healing Centers.
- The P20 Innovative Wound Healing Centers, their research focus and members in attendance (19 total) were:
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore - HIF-1 Regulated Endothelial Progenitor Cell Recruitment in Burn Wounds, Greg Semenza, John Harmon, Lixin Liu, Xiaofei Wei, and Xianjie Zhang.
- University of California, San Diego - Combinatorial Approach to Wound Healing for Protein, Gene and Cell Therapeutics, Andrew Baird and Brian Eliceiri.
- Montana State University, Bozeman - Healing Chronic Wounds by Controlling Microbial Biofilm, Phil Stewart, Garth James, and Phil Fleckman.
- University of Illinois at Chicago - Epithelial-Connective Tissue Interactions: Influence on Scar Formation, Luisa DiPietro, Phillip Marucha, Lin Chen, Megan Schrementi, Chris Engeland, and Wendy Cerny.
- Northwestern University Medial School - Thomas Mustoe, and Corrie Gallant-Behm.
- Each of these groups received a $3 million P20 Center grant from NIGMS in 2006 to establish Innovative Wound Healing Centers that would incorporate multidisciplinary and translational research models to address new approaches in wound healing therapies.