The Canadian Association for Dental Research (CADR) and the Network for Canadian Oral Health Research (NCOHR) have announced the winners of their 2019-2020 Student Research Awards. The awards will be presented to the winners at the Annual General Meeting of the CADR, which will be held in conjunction with the IADR/AADR meeting in Washington, DC, in March 2020.
Lina Marin of the University of Saskatchewan won first place in the Senior-Basic Science Research category for “Engineered Salivary Peptides Reduce Enamel Demineralization Provoked by Cariogenic S Mutans Biofilm.” Dr. Walter Siqueira supervised her work. She also will represent Canada during the Unilver/Hatton competition in Washington, DC.
Madhurima Datta of the University of British Columbia won first place in the Senior-Preclinical Research category for “Predicting Malignant Progression in Low-Grade Oral Dysplasia Using DNA Image Cytometry. Dr. Martial Guillaud supervised her work. She will represent Canada during the Unilever/Hatton competition as well.
The CADR and NCOHR also bestowed travel awards upon 16 students so they could present their research during the IADR/AADR/CADR meeting in Washington, DC:
- Trevor Burgess, University of Toronto, for “Polyaspartate-Modified Dental Resins With Remineralizing Capacity”
- Rachel MacDonald, University of Toronto, for “Increased TNFα and TNFR1 Expression in Oral Malignant Transformation”
- Gavin Raddal, Dalhousie University, for “Intracanal Antimicrobial Effects on SCAP Viability and Differentiation In Vitro”
- Kate Richert, University of Toronto, for “The Influence of Trust on Decision-Making, Information Preferences, and Patient Comprehension”
- Simran Sarao, University of Alberta, for “Occurrence and Risk Factors of Dental Root Perforations: A Systematic Review”
- Jacqueline Crossman, University of Alberta, for “Temporomandibular Joint Changes in a Juvenile Arthritic Rat Model”
- Harsimrat Kaur, University of Alberta, for “An In Vitro Study to Evaluate the Biomechanical Systems Associated With Orthodontic Clear Aligners Using an Orthodontic Simulator (OSIM): A Pilot Study”
- Fatemeh Mohabatpour, University of Saskatchewan, for “Proof-of-Concept Assays for Optimal Enamel Regeneration”
- Shahrzad Nouri, University of Toronto, for “A Novel Model System to Study the Matrix-Mediated Attachment of Epithelial Cells to Mineralized Tooth Surfaces”
- Zeeshan Sheikh, Dalhousie University, for “A New Way to Improve Bone Defect Repair and Regeneration: Bone Anabolic Conjugates (C3 and C6) With a Deproteinized Bovine Bone Mineral Xenograft (Bio-Oss)”
- Xinyun Su, McGill University, for “Cell Extract from Human Bone Marrow Mitigates Irradiation-Injured Salivary Glands”
- Abdalgader Alhozgi, McGill University, for “Patient Satisfaction With Oral Health Care: Does Rurality Matter?”
- Babatunde Alli, McGill University, for “HIV Modifies the Effect of Tobacco Smoking on Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection”
- Maryam Elyasi, University of Alberta, for “Modeling the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Preschoolers’ Dental Attendance”
- Gillian Landzberg, University of Toronto, for “A Novel Self-Mineralizing Antibacterial Tissue Repair (SMART) Varnish to Condition Dentin in Microsurgery”
- Iris Lin, University of British Columbia, “Determining the Malignant Nature of Dysplasia in Oral Lichenoid Lesions”
Trainees working in dental and oral health research in Canada applied for the Unilever/Hatton Divisional Awards and the CADR-NCOHR Student Research Awards by submitting a manuscript describing their studies. The competition was judged by a panel of 26 dental researchers from across Canada based on the criteria applied by the IADR Hatton judging committee.
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