Research Day
Our annual Research Day is in April. The program for the day consist of keynote talks and a poster session. All students conducting research in the dental hygiene, D.D.S., residency and graduate research programs present their research. Prizes are awarded for the best presentations in the following categories:
- D.D.S. student
- Dental hygiene student
- Resident
- Graduate research student
The School of Dentistry's research newsletter “The Dental Investigator" is published to coincide with research day. It highlights the breadth and depth of excellent research that takes place in the school and includes abstract for the research presented on the day
Research Day 2024
Please join us in congratulating all of our award winners for Research Day 2024! Thank you to everyone who made this exciting day possible. What a great showcase of the quality and variety of research that goes on at VCU School of Dentistry. Below is a list of this year’s award winners:
Nutrition and Oral Health
Sleep Apnea and Oral Health
Mental Health and Oral Health
Biochemical Evaluation of the Protein-Protein Binding Site of HPV16 E2 and TopBP1 Proteins
Mentor: Dr. Morgan
Prevalence of Mental Illness and Marijuana Use in Dental Emergency Clinic Patients
Mentor: Dr Abubaker
Impact of Fully Guided Surgery on the Position, Primary Stability and Prosthesis Design of Implants Immediately Placed in Extraction Socket: An In Vitro Study
Mentor: Dr. Siqueira
Jared Bergman
The Best of All Worlds: The Life of a Clinical Academician Core Project: Evaluation of Virtual Reality Simulation in VCU’s Dental Education - Administration of Local Anesthesia
Mentor: Dr. Glickman
Dr. Katherine J. Hayes
Outcomes of Anterior Crossbite Correction on Alveolar Bone Morphology in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate
Mentor: Dr. Shroff
Investigating the Role of a Putative Phospholipase in the Pathophysiology of Porphyromonas Gingivalis
Mentor Dr. Chris Li
Colin G. Hawkes
Gingival Epithelial Cell Interactions with the Underappreciated Periopathogen Selenomonas sputigena
Dr. Dan Miller
Thank you to all judges that provided a helping hand during Research Day!
Judges of the ADEA Academic Dental Career Fellowship Program posters: (left to right - Drs. Amirezza Ghassemi, Jeff Johnson, Duane Schafer, Shillpa Naavaal, Janina Lewis, Terence Imbery and Jitendra Jethwani)
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