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…
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…
Henrietta Logan, Ph.D. On Oct. 22, the National Institutes of Health announced a five-year, $5.3 million grant to the University of Florida College of Dentistry to fund a new research center aimed at reducing disparities in head and neck cancer survival through prevention and early detection in low-income, minority men.
On Oct. 10, the University of Florida Center for Pain Research held its 7th Annual Pain Research Day bringing together clinical and basic science faculty to showcase their research to colleagues in the UF Health Science Center. It also provided an opportunity for interaction and discussion of common…
Posters, presentations, lectures, awards and camaraderie marked the Sixth Annual College of Dentistry Research Day on March 28, 2008. The day’s highlights included research presentations from 22 DMD students, 15 MS/residents, 16 PhD/postdoctoral trainees, and nine faculty, staff, and undergraduate students that showcased the scientific accomplishments of the College…
If it looks and feels like a lot is happening this week in the college, it’s because a lot is happening this week with ASDA Week and Annual Research Day.ASDA Week March 24-28, 2008The American Student Dental Association kicks off ASDA Week Tuesday…
Congratulations to Yue “Maggie” Wang who was selected as one of 10 dental students in the country for the Academic Dental Careers Fellowship Program by the American Dental Research Association (AADR) and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). The fellowship program, designed to reach students attending all U.S. and…
By Ann Griswold Millions of Americans make the New Years resolution to stop smoking, but far too many break ranks before Jan. 2. Their dismal success rate has health officials scrambling to come up with easier ways to quit, and many have toyed with the idea that smokeless tobacco…
