WOCNext 2019

Laura Edsberg
Professor Natural Sciences and Director Center for Wound Healing Research
Daemen University


Dr. Laura Edsberg is Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Center for Wound Healing Research at Daemen University in Amherst, NY. She is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Daemen University Institute for Mobility Innovation and Technology (IMIT). Dr. Edsberg is a past-President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP). She is currently serving on the NPIAP board of directors. She co-chaired the 2016 NPIAP Staging Task Force, as well as the NPIAP Unavoidable Pressure Injury Consensus Conferences. She has written numerous articles and chapters about the microstructural and mechanical properties of pressure injury tissue and the proteomics of wound healing. Dr. Edsberg was awarded the Kosiak Award for her work in the field of pressure injuries. Dr. Edsberg’s research is focused on the proteome of healing and non-healing wounds. Currently her research group is working to identify biomarkers associated with healing in wounds.

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