Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine’s Dr. Hyeran Helen Jeon, Assistant Professor of Orthodontics, has been recognized by the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation (AAOF) for her research and commitment to academic dentistry as the 2019 recipient of the Orhan C. Tuncay Teaching Fellowship Award, one of AAOF’s annual Orthodontic Faculty Development Fellowship Awards. The award...
Philadelphia – Recognized for her outstanding research, Dr. Aurea Simon-Soro is the 2019 recipient of the IADR Women in Science Award for Distinguished Research. The award, presently annually, is intended to recognize excellence in oral/dental/craniofacial research by a female researcher; the award is given for a single research paper published in the previous year by...
Philadelphia – First-year Penn Dental Medicine orthodontics resident Dr. Xuefeng Zhao was recently recognized for his research, taking first place in the Young Researchers Forum that was part of the Chinese Dentistry Research and Administration Society’s Third Annual Meeting. The meeting was held in Chengdu, China, in November. Dr. Zhao was invited by the Chinese...
Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members of AAAS by their peers for scientifically and socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
Twice-daily rinses of FDA-approved nanoparticles broke apart oral biofilms and prevented tooth decay in a study from the lab of Dr. Michel Koo, published this week in Nature Communications.
Dr. Koo received the 2018 William H. Bowen Research in Dental Caries Award at the opening ceremonies of the IADR General Session being held in London.
A study from Drs. Jeon and Graves found cells that form the outer layer of skin and mucosa stimulate blood-vessel formation through the protein, Foxo1.
Orthodontics resident and MSOB candidate Dr. Mojarrad was chosen over 21 other students from schools around the United States in a two-stage competition.
In the May 9 workshop, faculty from Penn Dental Medicine and Penn Engineering shared their research and explored new ways for interdisciplinary collaboration.
