Grant Announcement - Check back for more information on this grant deadline for 2018! WHF Clinical Research in Wound Healing Grant supported by the Wound Reach Foundation. This one-year $2,500 research grant is to stimulate clinical research in wound healing.

Make plans to attend these two exciting WHF lectures at the annual WHS meeting in San Diego, CA April 5-9, 2017."

Let's be social! The WHF is on FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram. Stay up to date on news and opportunities

Come visit the WHF. This spring the WHF will be at DFcon in Houston March 23-25, WHS & SAWC in San Diego April 5-9, SPTHB's Tribal Public Health Conference in Tulsa April 11-13, and Wound Care from Innovations to Clinical Trials in Manchester, UK June 20-21.

Thank you to the EADV for hosting the WHF in their patient village.

See familiar and new faces on the WHF Board of Directors.

The WHF is excited to announce that Napoleone Ferrara, M.D. University of California, San Diego will be the 2017 WHF TK Hunt Honorary Lecturer. Dr. Ferrara's research on the biology of angiogenesis and impact of its regulators has resulted in numerous drug therapies that improve patient quality of life and his research has been cited over 130,000 times. Numerous prestigious honors and awards including the Lefoulon-Delalande-Institut de France Prize, GM Cancer Research Award, Lasker-deBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, Janssen Award for Biomedical Research, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award to name a few have been bestowed. Dr. Ferrara is also an elected member to both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.

Grant Announcement / Fellowship Announcement- The four deadlines for research money is fast approaching!

Come visit the WHF. This fall the WHF will be at the 1st International Keloid Symposium, World Union of Wound Healing Societies, European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology, and Scalpels to Stem Cells: 2nd annual wound care symposium. Congratulations to WHF Board of Director members Ardy Bayat and Paul Liu for helping organize the keloid and stem cell meetings respectively.

Fundraising for the WHF- There are many ways you can help raise funds for WHF programs; host a fundraiser, buy Biology and Clinical Aspects of Inflammation, give using Goodsearch or Amazon Smile, or donate directly.

Grant Announcement - A new grant, the WHF Poloxamer in Wound Healing Grant, was created through the support of Medline Industries. This one-year $15,000 research grant is to stimulate research about concentrated poloxamer(s) in wound healing.

Grant Announcement - For the 3rd consecutive year, the Wound Reach Foundation is supporting the WHF Clinical Research in Wound Healing Grant. This one-year $2,500 research grant is to stimulate clinical research in wound healing.

We’re excited to introduce our new Wound Healing Support Community, a free resource developed in partnership with Inspire to help wound healing patients and caregivers share support and information. You can find more information here or join the online community now.

The WHF wants to thank the editors and all authors of the book Basic Biology and Clinical Aspects of Inflammation to support research for young investigators. They gave ALL of their royalties to the WHF! You can purchase the chapters you want or the whole e-book.

We’re excited to introduce our new Wound Healing Support Community, a free resource developed in partnership with Inspire to help wound healing patients and caregivers share support and information. You can find more information here or join the online community now.

Grant Announcement - A new grant, the WHF Hyaluronic Acid Wound Healing Research Grant, was created through the support of Medline Industries. This one-year $15,000 research grant is to stimulate research about hyaluronic acid in wound healing.

We’re excited to introduce our new Wound Healing Support Community, a free resource developed in partnership with Inspire to help wound healing patients and caregivers share support and information. You can find more information here or join the online community now.

The Foundation went to Washington! WHF president Laura K. S. Parnell, traveled to DC to attend the American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting. While there, she met with congressional (Congressman Pete Olson legislative aide Michael Richards), senate (Senator Ted Cruz legislative aide Courtney Asbill and Senator John Cornyn legislative aide George Leonardo), FDA (Jill Lindstrom), and military officials and staff at Walter Reed to raise awareness about the burden of wounds and lack of financial resources for research.

WHF is on social media platform Tsῡ and invites you to come join us at http://www.tsu.co/woundhealingfoundation It's a great way to stay up-to-date with breaking announcements and Tsῡ donates money to WHF.

A Valentine's Day ball was held in Nashville, Tennessee to benefit the WHF. Organizers of the benefit were mother and daughter team Mary Bell and Maria C. Witherspoon with support of husband and father Dennis and oldest daughter DeAndrea. After Mary Bell experienced firsthand the importance of wound healing, she realized most people were not aware and were not educated about the need for optimal wound healing. Rather than feel sorry for their family, they decided to make people aware. With prayer and research, they found the WHF, made contact and proposed they raise funds specifically for WHF. Maria, who is only 24, took on the task of organizing the fundraiser through her business as a marketing consultant in addition to schoolwork and transitioning to medical school. Their efforts raise $500 and they are planning their next event. Please join us in thanking the Witherspoon family for inspiring us to strive towards our mission.

Make plans to attend these two exciting WHF lectures at the annual WHS meeting in Atlanta, GA, April 12 and 15, 2016.

Thank you to everyone for making 2015 a great year for the WHF. Please take a moment to look at the year end summary.

Fall 2015 was a busy time. The WHF participated in Scalpels to Stem Cells 1st Annual Wound Care Symposium in Providence, Rhode Island and the joint ETRS-WHS meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. While in Europe, we met with the Danish Wounded Warrior Project (DWWP) members Jojo, Jessie, Malou and Heinrich in Copenhagen, Denmark. We also met with Martin Colclough from Help for Heroes in Windsor, UK.

Don't forget to join Goodsearch by using this link and Goodshop will donate an extra $5 to the WHF scholarship fund!