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JK. Hardesty Award for Best E-Poster Presentation won by Department of Plastic Surgery Reseachers!

Researchers at the Department of Plastic Surgery won the JK. Hardesty Award for Best E-Poster Presentation at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Plastic Surgery Research Council in St. Louis, Missouri May 1-4, 2025. 

Metformin Topical Ointment Reduces Acute Damage In Irradiated Human Skin By Blocking Tgfβ Signaling Through Modulation Of Ampk And Mtor Signaling. Alexa Rivera del Rio Hernandez, MD, Naresh Mahajan, PhD, Jose A. Arellano, MD, Hamid Malekzadeh, MD, Yusuf Surucu, MD, Fuat Baris Bengur, MD, Shawn Loder, MD, James H-C Wang, PhD, Juan J. Andrade Rojas, MD, Jeffrey A. Gusenoff, MD, Francesco M. Egro, MBChB, MSc, MRCS, J. Peter Rubin, MD, FACS, MBA, Asim Ejaz, PhD.