Restore Research

03/05/2024

RESTORE is pleased to announce that we will be running the Restore Essay competition this year. We will be open for entries from Monday 29th April 2024 until Wednesday July 31st 2024 . Entries will be accepted from any UK medical student.

The title of this years competition is “What have been the changing trends in burns injuries in the UK over the past 20 years? How do you think they will change over the next 20?”. Please submit your essays ( maximum 1,500 words excluding references) by the 31st July 2024.

The prizes this year are £500, £200 and £100 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Work will be judged by the team here at Restore. Winners will be announced at the beginning of September. To submit your essay, please fill out this form : https://forms.gle/a3pGsBtDuaGviYpk7

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us either via email (essayprize@restore-research.org.uk) or DM us on Twitter or Instagram ()

Good Luck!

20/09/2023

We’re hiring! We’re looking for 2-3 new social media fellows! Open to all medical students. You’ll be running our social media platforms and website and organising national medical student/ foundation doctor competitions. Great leadership points for portfolio & a paid opportunity! More info to follow soon.

22/08/2023

Interesting article alert!
Fantastic work from our peers at Imperial College London who have investigated the effect of transplanting hair follicles to promote better scar healing. Follow the link below to read the full article!

Despite the substantial impact of skin scarring on patients and the healthcare system, there is a lack of strategies to prevent scar formation, let alone methods to remodel mature scars. Here, we took a unique approach inspired by how healthy hairbearing skin undergoes physiological remodelling duri...

30/09/2022

1 week to go till our poster competition closes to entries!

Deadline 6th October 2022!

Thanks for all of your submissions so far!

30/08/2022

Competition Alert!! We’re running a Poster competition for foundation doctors for Burns Awareness Day 2022! Our aim is to help raise awareness & educate the lay population about burns management. £500 prize money for the winner!

18/08/2022

We caught up with one of our Restore Duke of Kent research fellows,Miss Daisy Ryan, this week to find out what she’s been up to lately! Follow the link below to find out about the amazing contribution she’s made towards patient care in burns and scarring!

Advancing burn & scar research

12/06/2022

Mina Ip, a Restore Duke of Kent research fellow is collaborating with Carocell Bio to investigate novel proteins that can reduce inflammation. Follow the link below to find out more about her current research in scarring!

Advancing burn & scar research

10/04/2022

The University of Bristol and James Lind Alliance have collaborated to carry out a global project that aims to identify the top ten questions about burn care that we currently don’t have the answers for. The project involves an online survey for patients, carers and healthcare professionals asking what the most important unanswered questions are in burns care. These will then be ranked to identify the top 10.

Well done to all involved in creating this fantastic project, we can’t wait to find out the results to help direct future research in Burns.
Please see the photo below for information on how to participate in the 10minute survey!

24/02/2022

Interesting article alert!
This study describes a new method for treating deep partial thickness burns by using enzymatic debridement followed by co-delivery of autologous keratinocyte suspension and plated-rich fibrin (PRF). A very interesting read!

Background Deep partial-thickness burns are traditionally treated by tangential excision and split thickness skin graft (STSG) coverage. STSGs create donor site...

17/03/2021

One step closer to scarless healing! A recently published study uses a wound dressing material that gives pulsative releases of a TGF-B inhibitor to enhance wound closure & suppress scar formation. See the wound images in the paper for their great results!

Dysfunctional and disfiguring scars can result from aberrant wound repair. Here, the authors develop a wound dressing material based on an integrated photo-crosslinking strategy and a microcapsule platform with pulsatile release of TGF-β inhibitor to achieve spatiotemporal specificity for scarless ...

28/12/2020

Interesting article! We need to improve the way we use socioeconomic data derived from postcodes & improve the collection and documentation of social histories. Better identification of socioeconomic status could improve long term outcomes in burn injury patients!

25/09/2020

What factors are affecting the research productivity of burn surgeons?
> Lack of institutional support
> Lack of protected research time
> Increased regulatory policy

A recent survey of Burn surgeons identified the barriers they face to producing research & ways in which these can be overcome.

Read the following article for more info!

Abstract. While previous studies have examined factors that affect research productivity for surgeons in general, few studies address research productivity spe