Xiuli Sun One of Six Awarded for Preventive Research

Xiuli Sun, doctor of science candidate at BUSDM, is the winner of the prestigious Colgate Research in Prevention Travel Award for her abstract, "Oral Fungal Disease Prevention: Impact of Histatin Proteolysis." She is one of just six recipients internationally and the only winner in the U.S.

Sun’s research, which she worked on with Drs. Frank Oppenheim, Eva Helmerhorst, and Erdjan Salih, focuses on the impact of proteolysis, or protein digestion, on the structure and function of proteins in saliva.

She will receive the prize of $2,000 when she presents her paper at the annual meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) March 21 to 24 in New Orleans.