PhD Candidate Enters Uncharted Territory
Jike Cui recently completed a successful defense of his doctoral thesis, "Darwinian Selection for Sequons (Sites of Asn-Linked Glycosylation) with Threonine in Phylogenetically Disparate Eukaryotes and Viruses," making him the first student from the bioinformatics program to complete the PhD research work in the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Department […]
Dr. Amitha Palamakumbura Achieves Breakthrough in Oral Cancer Research
Research Assistant Professor Dr. Amitha Palamakumbura recently made new inroads in her research on the lysyl oxidase propeptide as an inhibitor of oral cancer when she found that LOX-PP specifically inhibits FGF signaling and not EFG signaling to inhibit the rapid growth or oral cancer cells. Dr. Palamakumbura is a member of Professor Dr. Philip […]
Dr. Philip Trackman Awarded R01 Competitive Grant Renewal
Professor Dr. Philip Trackman was awarded a five year competitive renewal of his R01 grant titled, “Inhibited Intramembranous Bone Healing in Diabetes," by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), on March 1. Funding will extend through February of 2014 and the award totals $1,760,470. […]
GSDM Presents Wide Range of Research at IADR General Session
The 87th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) was held in Miami, Florida from April 1 to April 4. This meeting is hosted jointly by the IADR, American Association for Dental Research (AADR), and Canadian Association for Dental Research (CADR). This is the leading scientific meeting for the oral, craniofacial, and […]
Cancer Publishes GSDM Research
A paper titled, "Low Positive Predictive Value of the Oral Brush Biopsy in Detecting Dysplastic Oral Lesions," was published in the March 1, 2009 edition of Cancer, the official journal of the American Cancer Society. This paper was authored by Vinodh Bhoopathi DPH 10; Professor, Director, and Chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Dr. Sadru […]
Science Day A Winning Event for GSDM
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Science Day kicked off on Thursday morning with a wide variety of research presented in poster form by predoctoral students and postdoctoral students and fellows in the hallway outside of the 670 Auditorium. On hand to view the research was Boston University Associate Provost and […]
Dr. Xiaoren Tang Awarded NIAID Grant
Research Assistant Professor of Periodontology and Oral Biology Dr. Xiaoren Tang was awarded a grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), an institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for his research titled, "Role of p53 in LITAF-Mediated Inflammatory Process," in February 2009. The grant will fund Dr. Tang’s research […]
Analytic Chemistry Highlights Saliva Research
An article highlighting the research that is part of a collaboration between Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) Professor and Chair of Periodontology and Oral Biology Dr. Frank Oppenheim, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) Assistant Professor Dr. Frederic Little, BUGSDM Associate Professor Dr. Eva Helmerhorst, BUGSDM Research Assistant Professor Dr. Walter Siqueira, […]
Dr. Helmerhorst Presents Research at Gordon Research Conference
Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) Associate Professor Dr. Eva Helmerhorst was selected to speak at the Gordon Research Conference on Salivary Glands & Exocrine Secretion held February 8-13 in Galveston, Texas. This was the seventh Gordon Conference in a series that has brought together established salivary and exocrine gland investigators, promising junior […]
Dr. Xiuli Sun Publishes First Manuscript
Xiuli Sun’s ORAL BIO 08 research manuscript titled, "Activity-based mass spectrometric characterization of proteases and inhibitors in human saliva," has been selected for publication by Proteomics Clinical Applications. This is the first manuscript that Dr. Sun has published as first author. The research for this manuscript was completed while Dr. Sun was pursuing her doctor […]