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Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine’s Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) has partnered with Cochrane Oral Health to form the Cochrane Oral Health Collaborating Center at Penn Dental Medicine, the first oral-health-oriented Cochrane collaborative group in the world. The new Center marks a significant step in helping to expand evidence-based knowledge to inform practice...
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine will once again help to raise awareness about oral cancer and the importance of early detection with its annual Oral Cancer Walk & 5K, to be held Sunday, April 16, 2023. Registration is now open for this year’s gathering, which marks the 15th anniversary of this student-organized event. Participants can...
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine faculty explore some of the latest advances in the field of dental medicine in a new course that has launched on Coursera, the global online learning platform. The course, Frontiers in Dentistry, focuses on five distinct areas that have gone through significant transformation recently and the therapeutic and scientific innovations...
Philadelphia — Dr. Zhi Ren, a current NIDCR R90 postdoctoral trainee within the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD) – Penn Dental Medicine’s collaborative center with Penn Engineering — was awarded the 2022 American Society for Microbiology (ASM)’s Early Career Symposium (ECS) Best Presentation Award. The award was presented as part of the ASM...
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine faculty members were recognized for their research and innovation as part of the Penn Center for Innovation’s (PCI) 7th annual Celebration of Innovation. This annual event celebrates Penn researchers and innovators who were named as inventors on patents issued to Penn this past fiscal year and highlights significant commercialization achievements....
Philadelphia — Penn Dental Medicine’s Dr. Hyun (Michel) Koo, Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Division of Community Oral Health, Division of Pediatric Dentistry and Co-Founding Director of the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD), has been recognized for the scope and depth of his research — named on the Highly Cited Researchers™ 2022 list from...
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine student research was well represented at the recent Greater New York Dental Meeting with seven student researchers making poster presentations on their projects. They presented their work as part of the Meeting’s Scientific Poster Session, held Sunday, November 27 at the Javits Center in New York. “Presentations at professional meetings...
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School for 2022-2025 – the second time receiving this designation for its innovative use of learning technologies, having also been an Apple Distinguished School for 2019-2022. Apple Distinguished Schools are centers of innovation, leadership, and educational excellence that use Apple technology to inspire...
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine’s Dr. Michel Koo, Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD), was among a panel of researchers, engineers, and business founders invited to be part of a recent Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson Podcast titled “Dentistry: An Oral History of Disruption.” Dr. Koo shared findings from one...
