Wednesday, April 15, 2026
10:00am-5:30pm
Penn Dental Medicine
240 S. 40th Street
Phila, PA 19104
Time |
Item | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:55am |
Opening Remarks
|
Arthur E. Corby Auditorium |
| 10:00am-10:20am | Penn Dental Medicine Faculty Speaker Moderator: Cagla Akay-Espinoza, MD “Senescence, Inflammaging and Microbiome Axis in Periodontal Aging” Sinem Esra Sahingur, DDS, MS, PhD Associate Dean of Graduate Studies & Student Research Associate Professor, Department of Periodontics |
Corby Auditorium |
| 10:20am-10:40am | Penn Dental Medicine Faculty Speaker Moderator: Hyeran Helen Jeon, DDS, MSD, DScD “Unraveling Clinical and Molecular Pathways of Periodontitis Progression” Flavia Teles, DDS, MS, DMSc Professor Department of Basic & Translational Sciences |
Corby Auditorium |
| 10:40am-11:00am | Penn Dental M Faculty Speaker Moderator: Yijing Su, PhD “The Healing Blueprint: Enhanced Therapeutic Potentials of GMSCs” Anh D. Le, DDS, PhD Chair and Norman Vine Endowed Professor of Oral Rehabilitation Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery/Pharmacology |
Corby Auditorium |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | The Joseph L. Rabinowitz Memorial Lecture Moderator: Henry Daniell, PhD “Treating Fibrosis with mRNA and CAR T cells” Jonathan Epstein, MD Dean of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine and Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System |
Corby Auditorium |
| 12:00pm-12:45pm | Lunch | Lerner Pavilion |
| 12:45pm-2:45pm | Poster Presentations and Competitions | Schattner Lobby, Lerner Pavilion, and Schattner Patient Waiting |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | PDM Research Day Keynote Lecture Moderator: Alonso Carrasco Labra, DDS, MSc, PhD “A Journey in Hormonal Actions, Immunology, Bone Biology and Discovery Science” Laurie McCauley, DDS, MS, PhD Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan |
Corby Auditorium |
| 4:15pm-5:30pm | Reception, Recognition and Awards Sinem Esra Sahingur, DDS, MS, PhD |
Fonseca Gardens |