Wound Healing & Infection Research Laboratories

The University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery is renowned for their work in the field of wound healing and infection. Robert Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D. heads the clinical wound healing and infection studies and Professor Stephen Davis oversees the pre-clinical porcine trials.  These studies cover a variety of research areas including, product development for pharmaceutical companies, advanced biologics for accelerating chronic wounds and biofilm research. Their facilities and research interests include:

CUTANEOUS MICROBIOLOGY FACILITY

• Bacterial quantitation with specialized tools 
• • Spiral Plater System 
  • Colsworth stomacher 
  • Specialized media 
• Antimicrobial/Antibacterial assay systems 
• Biofilm modeling 
• Mycological studies
• Impetigo studies (human)
• Chronic wounds (human)
  

WOUND HEALING FACILITY

• Surgery suite-large animals
• • Facilities for general anesthesia
  • Individual Housing
• Epithelization Assay
• Real time PCR / Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis
• Pathogen genetic analysis
• Electrophoretic densitometric analysis
• Cloning and sequencing
• Planimetry analysis for measuring wound contraction 
• Histological measurements of wound healing
• • Scanning and electron microscopic evaluations
  • Immunohistochemistry 
• Digital photography