Collaborations
University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine
Robert Kirsner, MD
Dr. Kirsner is the Chairman and Tenured Professor in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and holds the Harvey Blank Chair. He is the Chief of Dermatology at the University of Miami Hospital. As the director for the Wound Center, Dr. Kirsner conducts both company and physician sponsored clinical research. Dr. Kirsner’s specialties include: wound healing, leg ulcers, skin cancer, medical dermatology and cutaneous surgery. He is on the editorial boards for multiple journals in Dermatology and Wound Healing and has over 500 peer-reviewed publications.
Stephen Davis, PhD
Dr. Davis is a research professor who has over 30 years’ experience using various wound healing and infection models in swine. He worked with William H. Eaglstein, MD, and Patricia M. Mertz who pioneered the first animal porcine model in the mid 1970s. Using these models, Dr. Davis and his team have expanded their current knowledge of moist wound healing, evaluated the in-vivo effects of numerous agents on bacterial proliferation and bacterial biofilms as well as helped to determine mechanisms and efficacy of various products/technologies that are on the market today e.g. DuoDerm dressing, Kerlix A.M.D., Liquid Bandage, Iodoflex and Procellera.
University of California, Davis
Min Zhao, MD, PhD
Dr. Zhao is a professor of dermatology at the UC Davis School of Medicine. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Aberdeen, Cardiff University and a guest professor at the 3rd Military Medical University, China. Dr. Zhao graduated from the 3rd Military Medical University in Chongqing, China. After completion of PhD training under the supervision of Professor Zhengguo Wang, he joined Professor Geoff Burnstock at University College, London. He then moved to the University of Aberdeen as a research fellow to work with Professors Colin McCaig and John Forrester. In 2007, he moved to UC Davis and is currently a Professor of Dermatology and Ophthalmology.
His research is aimed toward improving wound healing and regeneration of damaged or diseased tissues. His current work focuses on:
- The role naturally occurring electric fields or electric currents in wound healing and tissue regeneration.
- Development of therapies to electrically stimulate and direct wound healing and tissue regeneration.
- Targeting stem cell migration.
Brian Reid, PhD
Brian Reid graduated from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland with a BSc in Microbiology. He then went on complete a PhD studying electrotaxis of zoosporic fungi. Following his PhD, he worked on vesicle recycling in retinal bipolar cells at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and later worked on the specificity of nerve-muscle interaction with Dr. Guy Bewick. He joined the laboratory of Min Zhao in 2001. Brian’s projects include: Electric fields and wound healing in human and rat cornea. Role of electric fields and ion flux in Xenopus frog tadpole tail regeneration. Wound healing in primate airway epithelium. Electrical activity in brain after traumatic injury. Feather bud development.