Funded Projects
EPUAP Starting Grant
2024-2025
Topic: Empowering Patient Expertise (EmpowerPEx): Establishing an advisory panel to identify research priorities for pressure ulcer prevention through lived experience partnership
Period: 2024-2026
Researcher: Dr. Hannah Wilson, RCSI
Dr Hannah Wilson is the Principle Investigator for this project. Hannah is a Strategic Academic Recruitment (StAR) Research Lecturer in Nursing and Tissue Viability within the Skin Wounds and Trauma (SWaT) Research Centre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Professor Zena Moore and Professor Declan Patton, SWaT director and deputy director in RCSI, are project partners. In addition, Professor Wendy Chaboyer and Dr Georgia Tobiano, Wiser Wound Care Research Lead and Senior Research fellow are project partners from Griffith University, Menzies Health Institute Queensland Australia.
Topic: ASPECT: Evaluation of soft tissues properties in the context of pressure ulcer prevention in high-risk populations
Period: 2024-2026
Researcher: Maher Abou Karam, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology (ENSAM)
Project team:
Geriatricians: Maher ABOU KARAM; Amina LAHLOU; Fatma MAAZOUN
Physical/occupational therapists: Reine MOGHAMES; Melvil JOYAUX
Biomechanical engineers/ academic advisors: Pierre Yves ROHAN; Claudio VERGARI, Hélène PILLET
Topic: The impact of the digital PI-game on nursing students’ skills to categorize and stage pressure injuries
Period: 2024-2025
Researcher: Ayşe Sılanur Demir, Koç University
Project Team:
Ayşe Sılanur Demir, Havanur Kılıç, Aleyna Uçanbelen, Ayişe Karadağ
EPUAP Seed Funding
2023-2024
Effects of critical patient-centered skin barrier functions of skin
PRE-NET - A network of researchers and service users to prevent and manage pressure ulcers in pre-frail older adults through early nutrition interventions
EPUAP Exchange scholarships for emerging research
2020 - 2021
Using a suction blister model to evaluate the efficacy of a new skin protection method based on the application of sodium pyruvate
Clinical relevance of a simplified framework for generating in silico models from freehand Ultrasound for monitoring internal tissue strains for the prevention of Pressure Ulcers: US-based Finite Element models versus MRI-based Finite Element models
The relationship between subepidermal moisture measurement and inflammatory markers in the early identification of pressure ulcers
Development, implementation and evaluation of a pressure ulcer treatment intervention (including local treatment and secondary prevention) for patients suffering from spinal cord injury in a specialised Danish healthcare setting.
2019
The incidence of pressure ulcers after open heart surgery and the impact of pressure ulcers of patients experience in Sweden and Belgium
Heel Pressure Ulcers: Back to Basics
Analysis of the temporal biomechanical signals for a predictive algorithm of posture and movement
2018
Topic: PUPOSE T – Clinical evaluation of a new risk assessment tool in a Swedish context
Type: Clinical Emerging Research
Period: 2018
Researcher: Lisa Hultin, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University
Topic: Medical Device Related Pressure Ulcers
Type: Lab Emerging Research
Period: 2018
Researcher: Lea Cohen, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Topic: The Outcomes for Pressure Ulcer Trials (OUTPUTS): Development of a core outcome set for trials evaluating the clinical efficacy or effectiveness of pressure ulcer prevention interventions
Type: Clinical Emerging Research
Period: 2018 – 2021
Researchers: Jane Nixon, Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds; Susanne Coleman, Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds; Delia Muir, Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds; Jan Kottner, Clinical Research Center for Hair and Skin Science; Katrin Balzer, Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology; Anna Lechner, Clinical Research Center for Hair and Skin Science
