Announcements

UAB School of Dentistry Student Elected to Board of the national Student Research Group of the AADR

5/27/2008    Nathaniel (Nate) Lawson (SOD Class of 2011, 2nd Year DMD/PhD Program) has been elected to serve as President-elect of the National Student Research Group (NSRG) of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR).  Nate will serve as President-elect until the conclusion of the 2009 IADR/AADR meeting in Miami, Florida.  At that time Nate will become President.

Nate is excited to be able to represent the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry in such an auspicious organization.  He is especially excited to speak for the future dental and oral health scientist which his organization represents, and will as President be able to represent them on the AADR Board and Council.

 UAB School of Dentistry Students Receive Bloc Travel Awards

4/21/2008    Five UAB School of Dentistry students have received Bloc Travel Awards by the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), to attend the General Session of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) in Toronto, Ontario, July 2-5, 2008.

The Travel Award for these 5 students represents 10% of the total awards, the most for any U.S. school. 

The awards were given to:

Lisa Irish (SOD Class of 2010) - presenting a poster for her research project: "Ameloblastin Mutations in Dental Oral Tumors".

Ejvis Lamani (SOD Class of 2011, 3rd Year DMD/PhD student in Microbiology) - presenting a poster for her research project: "NFI-C Protein Expression Associated with Tooth Root Formation".  Ms. Lamani will also be presenting her research in the Pulp Biology Session.

Nathaniel Lawson (SOD Class of 2011, 2nd Year DMD/PhD student in Biomedical Engineering) - presenting a poster for his research project: "Evaluation of Bond Strength with the Immediate Dentinal Sealing Technique".

Mary Beth Wilson (First Year DMD/PhD student in Biomedical Engineering) - presenting a poster on her research project: "Effect of Bone MJorphogenetic Proteins on Dental Pulp Differentiation".  Ms. Wilson will also be presenting her research orally in the Pulp Biology Session.

Dr. Xueming (Eric) Zhang (SOD Class of 2011) - presenting a poster on his research project: "Early Enamel Maturation observed in VDR Deficient Mice".