Janket Grant to Investigate Saliva as Mortality Predictor in Heart Disease
The American Heart Association (AHA) has awarded Dr. Sok-Ja Janket a Scientist Development Grant to study salivary lysozyme as a predictor for cardiovascular mortality. The award of $221,100, to be disbursed over four years, is part of an AHA program to support promising beginning scientists in their progress toward becoming successful independent investigators. Three hundred […]
Ortho Resident Wins 2d Prize in National Research Competition
Jean-David Sebaoun ORTHO 07 won second prize in a national research competition among orthodontic residents from 42 advanced orthodontic training programs in the U.S. and Canada. The competition was judged during the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) annual meeting in Las Vegas May 5-9. Sebaoun conduced his research, titled "Trabecular Modeling and RAP Following Selective […]
BUSDM Receives $34k Grant for Evidence-Based Dentistry Research
The American Dental Association (ADA) Foundation has awarded BUSDM $34,000 to determine how effective dental prophylaxis is in preventing periodontitis in people with and without known risk factors. Among the 14 proposals, BUSDM’s was 1 of just 3 selected for funding. A key feature of the school’s proposal includes literature reviews of studies not only […]
Periodontology & Oral Biology Publications Highlighted by NIDCR
The NIDCR has highlighted two papers by periodontology and oral biology faculty Drs. Dana Graves, Salomon Amar, and Cataldo Leone. One, " Immunization enhances inflammation and tissue destruction in response to Porphyromonas gingivalis," was published in the April issue of Infection and Immunity. The other, in the March issue of American Journal of Pathology, is […]
Amar Discovers New Gene Linked to Inflammation
In a paper featured in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), Dr. Salomon Amar, professor of periodontology and oral biology, reports the discovery of a new gene, STAT6(B), that helps regulate production of the potentially deadly tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) cytokine. TNF-alpha is involved in inflammatory disorders such as Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid […]
Graves Named JDR Associate Editor
American and International Association of Dental Research (AADR/IADR) boards this week appointed Dr. Dana Graves, BUSDM professor of periodontology and oral biology, associate editor of the Journal of Dental Research (JDR). In this role, he will be responsible for the Journal’s Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine (CROBM) section. "My goals for CROBM are […]
Drs. Garcia and Dietrich to Present at International Periodontology Symposium in Berlin
Drs. Raul Garcia, professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research, and Thomas Dietrich, visiting research scholar, will speak at Current Controversies in Periodontology, an international periodontology symposium in Berlin December 9, 2006. Dietrich, who is one of five co-organizers of the symposium, will speak on the topic "Case selection — discriminating […]
Decortication Technique Gets Symposium Spot at AADR/IADR
The AADR/IADR has chosen a BUSDM research area, "Rapid Orthodontics Following Selective Alveolar Decortication," as one of 15 symposia to be presented at its 2007 annual meeting in New Orleans. Dr. Thomas Van Dyke, director of the school’s Clinical Research Center, was influential in the AADR/IADR’s selection of decortication as a symposium topic. "This symposium […]
Graves Named JDR Associate Editor
American and International Association of Dental Research (AADR/IADR) boards this week appointed Dr. Dana Graves, BUSDM professor of periodontology and oral biology, associate editor of the Journal of Dental Research (JDR). In this role, he will be responsible for the Journal’s Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine (CROBM) section. "My goals for CROBM are […]