AADR Annual Meeting Elicits Participation From Many Areas of BUGSDM
The Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) was held from April 2-5 in Dallas, Texas. The meeting included individual oral and poster presentations and symposia/workshops on topics of major interest to the scientific community. The meeting is recognized as an excellent forum for the presentation of current dental and collateral research findings, and as such, many members of the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) submitted abstracts for the meeting that will be published online and in CD-ROM form as Special Issues of the Journal of Dental Research (JDR).
There were nearly 20 submissions authored by BUGSDM representatives including working in a variety of departments, including the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research, Periodontology and Oral Biology, Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, Pediatric Dentistry, General Dentistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Restorative Sciences and Biomaterials, and the Clinical Research Center.
Professor and Director of the Clinical Research Center Dr. Thomas Van Dyke felt that it was important for BUGSDM to submit material to the AADR meeting, adding, "The abstracts submitted showcase the excellent research that is conducted at BUGSDM across a wide area of topics and disciplines."
Dr. Van Dyke also lectured at a one of the symposia sponsored by Microbiology/Immunology and Infection Control, Periodontal Research. The lecture was titled, Host Immunotherapeutic Approaches for the Treatment of Periodontal Diseases.
Xiuli Sun PERIO 08 competed in the AADR/Johnson & Johnson Oral Health Products Hatton Awards – Senior Category with an abstract titled, Kinetics of Histatin Degradation in Human Saliva. Dr. Sun’s abstract was based on research in the study of salivary protease that has been supervised by Assistant Professor Dr. Eva Helmerhorst.
"The extensive range of research presented at the AADR by the BUGSDM community is outstanding," said Dean ad interim Dr. Jeffrey Hutter. "Everyone involved should be proud of their achievements."