Dental plaque bacteria’s sticky matrix acts as a shield, protecting fungus from antifungals, but new findings from the lab of Dr. Michel Koo point to a way around this protection.
As AADR Bloc Travel Grant recipients, Saro Atam (D’18) and Justine Chiou (D’19) will present their research at the IADR/PER General Session, being held this July in London.
Dr. Stoopler was installed to this leadership post at the recent AAOM Annual Meeting and will serve through May 2019.
Throughout April, Penn One Health is highlighting research across Penn related to the brain. Featured this week is the work of Penn Dental’s Dr. Kelly Jordan-Sciutto on protease inhibitors in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders.
The University has officially launched a new capital campaign. As part of it, The Power of Penn Dental Medicine campaign will raise funds for scholarships, research, and local and global outreach.
April is National Oral Cancer Awareness Month and Penn Dental Medicine students once organized the Philadelphia Oral Cancer Walk and 5k. This was the 10th year for the event.
Neuroscience research by Penn Dental’s Dr. Claire Mitchell is moving forward thanks to a new nanoparticle core facility at Penn.
Yuan Liu, a DScD candidate/pediatric dentistry resident, was a winner in the prestigious AADR Hatton Awards Competition, and Dongyeop Kim, a postdoctoral research fellow, was a finalist in the AADR/CADR Joseph Lister Award.
Penn Today reports the princess met with Pres. Gutmann and leaders of Penn’s health schools, including Interim Dean Dana Graves. She visits Penn Dental April 11.
Dr. Mark Wolff has been named the next Morton Amsterdam Dean of Penn Dental, effective July 1. He is currently Professor and Chair of Cariology and Comprehensive Care at NYU College of Dentistry.
The Philly Inquirer talked to Dr. Hersh in its coverage of the recent policy released by the ADA on opioids. He noted that opioids should not be the first line of pain relief.
A paper by faculty within the Department of Endodontics is being recognized by the Journal of Endodontics as its best clinical research publication in 2017.
A research study from the lab of Dr. Songtao Shi has taken steps to determining how stem cells derived from gum tissue can speed wound healing.
Third-year student Roopali Kulkarni has been elected national president of the American Student Dental Association, previously serving as District 3 trustee to the national ASDA Board
Dr. Thomas P. Sollecito, Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral Medicine, will receive the 2018 PDA Recognition Award.
Yassmin Parsaei (D’18) and Katherine Jie Shi (D’19) are among the 2018 ADEA/GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Preventive Dentistry Scholarship recipients.
Dr. Hangorsky has been part of the School’s periodontics faculty since 1980. He will remain in the Interim Chair role until the search is complete for a permanent Chair.
Awarded to the School’s Divisions of Pediatric Dentistry and Community Oral Health, the program is designed to enhance dental students’ course work and clinical experiences with young children.
The School officially celebrated the opening of its new Robert I. Schattner Clinic with a ribbon cutting and open house tours of the state-of-the-art facility.
A recent study from the lab of Dr. George Hajishengallis showed how the innate immune system can be trained to “remember” past threats/respond to future challenges.
