The benefit of using cold water to reduce the effect of a burn has been a first aid measure for over two thousand years. Hugh Wright MA BM BCh MRCS is researching the simple but unknown question of why cold reduces the burn effects so that a cream or pill can be produced to imitate…
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Fadi Issa MA BMBCh MRCS DPhil is looking at ways of helping patients with extensive burns that need skin grafts. He’s looking at Treg cells, a type of immune cell, that can stop the body rejecting a skin graft. His work holds vast promise in transplants of all kinds. He works at the John Radcliffe…
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Catrin Griffith BSc MSc in Bristol is using a PROMs questionnaire to measure how patients cope with both the pain and the psycho-social effects of being burned. Her findings will help the NHS effectively treat patients by better understanding their emotional and physical needs. She currently works at the Centre for Appearance Research, UWE. A…
Read moreThe Duke of Kent research fellows are working tirelessly to make advances in burn and scar treatments. Listed here are some of the most recent and notable publications in the form of both papers in peer reviewed journals, as well as books and book chapters. Papers Published Cross A, Issa F. Unraveling Renal Transplant…
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