
Five students place in CADR-NCOHR Student Research Competition
Five students at the Faculty of Dentistry have been recognized with CADR-NCOHR Student Research Awards in the most recent round of competition. The national competition recognizes excellence in research, and awards students travel grants which will help support the presentation of their research at the upcoming IADR/AADR/CADR meeting, to be held in Washington, DC in March 2020.
âThese are impressive results,â said Bernhard Ganss, professor and vice dean, research at the Faculty of Dentistry. âThe awards convey a true breadth of research innovation and talent at all levels and across all categories.â
The Faculty of Dentistryâs students gained recognition in each of the junior, senior basic as well as the senior clinical/preclinical competitions.
The winners of the awards are as follows:
JUNIOR:
Trevor Burgess
Supervisors: Dr. Anuradha Prakki, Dr. Karina Carneiro
âPolyaspartate-Modified Dental Resins with Remineralizing Capacityâ
Rachel MacDonald
Supervisor: Dr. Marco Magalhaes
âIncreased TNFα and TNFR1 Expression in Oral Malignant Transformationâ
Kate Richert
Supervisor: Dr. Laura Dempster
âThe influence of trust on decision-making, information preferences, and patient comprehensionâ
SENIOR BASIC SCIENCE RESEARCH:
Shahrzad Nouri
Supervisor: Dr. Bernhard Ganss
âA novel model system to study the matrix-mediated attachment of epithelial cells to mineralized tooth surfacesâ
SENIOR CLINICAL/PRE-CLINICAL RESEARCH:
Gillian Landzberg
Supervisor: Dr. Anil Kishen
âA Novel Self-Mineralizing Antibacterial Tissue Repair (SMART) Varnish to condition dentin in microsurgeryâ
Photo: Faculty of Dentistry Research Day 2019, courtesy Jeff Comber