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Philadelphia – Dr. Marshall Padilla, a current NIDCR T90 postdoctoral fellow within the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD) – Penn Dental Medicine’s collaborative center with Penn Engineering — has been selected to be part of the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR)’s Mentoring an Inclusive Network for a Diverse Workforce...
Philadelphia- Penn Dental Medicine recently hosted three senior (sixth-year) dental students from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Ein Kerem Campus for a two-week dental immersion program. The three students – Yuval Shalit, Eva Cohen Solal, and Raphaelle Emram – observed within various clinical care centers, including the general restorative, endodontics, oral surgery, periodontics, pediatrics, oral...
Philadelphia — A recently launched clinical trial at Penn will evaluate a unique chewing gum designed by Penn Dental Medicine’s Dr. Henry Daniell to trap SARS-CoV-2 in the saliva, potentially blocking transmission of COVID-19 from one person to another. The trial will recruit participants from a pool of Penn Medicine employees whose responses to the...
Philadelphia — PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar — an innovative collaboration between Penn Medicine and the not-for-profit Public Health Management Corporation — is located in the former Mercy Philadelphia Hospital building at 54th Street and Cedar Avenue in Cobbs Creek. It is becoming a resource hub for achieving health equity and sustaining public health....
Philadelphia — Penn Dental Medicine welcomed the Class of 2026 DMD students to the study of dental medicine at its annual White Coat Ceremony, held August 11 at Penn’s Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. This annual tradition holds symbolic significance for members of the incoming class as they are presented with a white coat...
Philadelphia — With its irregularities and anatomical complexities, the root canal system is one of the most clinically challenging spaces in the oral cavity. As a result, biofilm not fully cleared from the nooks and crannies of the canals remains a leading cause of treatment failure and persistent endodontic infections, and there are limited means...
Philadelphia – Adding to the depth of research at the dental medicine and engineering interface, Penn Dental Medicine welcomes recent recruit Dr. Kyle Vining, who joined Penn Dental Medicine and its Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD) on July 1. Dr. Vining will be appointed Assistant Professor of Preventive and Restorative Sciences, School of...
Philadelphia — Dr. Yu Zhang, Professor, Division of Restorative Dentistry in the Department of Preventive & Restorative Sciences, has been named to the 2022-23 cohort of Penn Fellows, one of 16 mid-career faculty members selected this year from throughout the University of Pennsylvania for this honor. The Penn Fellows program, run out of Penn’s Office...
Philadelphia – To continue to expand the activities of the Penn Dental Medicine Center for Clinical and Translational Research, the Center welcomes Dr. Eugene Ko to the newly created post of Deputy Director, Clinical Research Operations. “In this role, Dr. Ko will help to build upon the existing support for student and resident research and...
