Shannon Wallet, Ph.D. Shannon M. Wallet, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UF College of Dentistry, received two grants and one contract, totaling more than $800,000 to fund her research within the UF College of Dentistry. Wallet recently received a $402,875, two-year grant from…
Katherine Karpinia, D.M.D., M.S. Three UF College of Dentistry faculty received UF Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) awards – the first time these awards have been given. Of 15 applicants for the first round of FEO award at the university, 12 were funded with…
Congratulations to the College of Dentistry’s Antwan Bates, Lee Mintz, Charles Lesch and Justus Weber, who won the 2008 Division 5 Superior Accomplishment Awards as part of the Health Science Center’s area. These four staff members will be honored along with winners from other HSC colleges during a luncheon on…
Sara Palmer, an IDP graduate student in the college’s Department of Oral Biology, recently received an Individual Pre-doctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). The grant covers most of her stipend through May 2010. Palmer is originally from Jackson,…
Theofilos Koutouzis, D.D.S., M.S. Theofilos Koutouzis, D.D.S., M.S., recently received an American Academy of Implant Dentistry Research Foundation (AAIDRF) Award in order to complete his research project “Comparative Soft and Hard Tissue Responses to Titanium and Polymer Healing abutments.” The award of $2,000,…
Edward Chan, Ph.D., a professor in the UF College of Dentistry’s Department of Oral Biology, received a one-year grant of $88,500 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a part of the National Institutes of Health, to fund a pilot study on autoantibody determinations and their xenobiotic…
More than 175 faculty, courtesy faculty and residents of the UF College of Dentistry attended the Annual Faculty Retreat on Dec. 19, at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Center in Gainesville, Fla. Philippe Hujoel, D.D.S., a professor at the University of Washington School of Dentistry & School of…
There were five teams and 30 people participating in Round Two of the Biggest Loser Challenge which ran from Oct. 7 through Dec. 12. But only one team and one individual could take home the prizes and call themselves the “biggest loser.”…
One of the Holiday Giving Trees that was set up in UFCD for the Wish Upon a Star program. The spirit of the holidays is alive…
Roger Fillingim, Ph.D., will receive the 2009 Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award from the American Pain Society at their annual meeting in May 2009. The award recognizes individual excellence and achievements in clinical pain scholarship and is presented to a pain professional whose total career research achievements have…
