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UFCD Students Recognized for Excellence

Maggie Wang stands with her poster presentation at the IADR/AADR annual meeting. Dental juniors Lindsay Ringdahl and David Yates are the college’s 2007 Hinman Scholars. Ringdahl and Yates received their $3,000 cash awards during the…

Nobel Laureate is Keynote Speaker During UFCD Research Day

Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Florida State University and Fellow of the Royal Society, addressed faculty, staff, students and guests during the keynote presentation of the College of Dentistry’s 5th Annual Research Day, held April 13. Dr. Kroto received The Nobel Prize in…

Dental practitioner-investigators set to begin study

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Nearly 40 Florida and Georgia dentists participating in the federally-funded Dental Practice-based Research Network (Dental PBRN) attended the network’s first annual meeting Jan. 5 & 6 in Gainesville, Fla. The meeting was held to prepare the dentists to serve as practitioner-investigators in conducting the…

Anusavice Honored as Distinguished Lecturer

Kenneth Anusavice, D.M.D., Ph.D., associate dean for research and a professor and chairman of the department of dental biomaterials, was honored as the 24th recipient of the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics Foundation Distinguished Lecturer Award. Given to Anusavice Dec. 6 during the academy’s annual meeting, held at Lincoln…

Widmer Receives NIDCR Committee Appointment

Charles Widmer, D.D.S., M.S., an associate professor of orthodontics and the director of clinical research in the Parker E. Mahan Facial Pain Center, has been reappointed for a second two-year term on the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Special Grants Review Committee.

UFCD awarded $3.5 million oral biology training grant

The University of Florida College of Dentistry has received a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to continue the colleges research training program in oral biology. The National Research Service Award Institutional Training Grant in Oral Biology helps support the colleges efforts to…

UF Dental Student Wins Caulk/Dentsply Award

Dental sophomore Robert V. Weaver is the second place recipient of the 2006 AADR Caulk/Dentsply Student Research Group Award Competition in the basic science category. Weaver received this distinguished recognition during the American Association of Dental Research annual meeting held this March in Orlando, Fla. At the time of…

Grant received to study ethnic differences in pain

Barbara Hastie, Ph.D., a research assistant professor of community dentistry and behavioral science, received a five-year, $805,194 National Institutes of Health grant to study ethnic differences and genetic factors in acute postoperative pain and analgesic response. In addition, Hastie is the recipient of the 2006 “Future Leaders in Pain…

Tiny cellular structure plays big role in mammalian gene regulation

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida researchers have discovered a new ingredient in our cellular soup, tiny structures that may lay the groundwork for how new cells form and then function. The structures, dubbed GW bodies by the UF researchers who identified them in mammalian cells, are described in…