Research Day Awards 2022
Three-hundred participants gathered virtually this year to hear lectures and celebrate the winners of the college’s 38th Research Day.
The day began with a faculty lecture from Dean Carroll Ann Trotman and included a lecture on “The Power of the Face: Restoring Paralysis and Clefting” by distinguished lecturer Sarah M. Knox, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Cell & Tissue Biology at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry. The event concluded with awards recognizing the exceptional research efforts of dental students, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, residents and faculty.
Faculty “Paper of the Year” Awards
Category: Basic Research
Authors: Mukherjee et al.
Publication: “Acquisition of oral microbiota is driven by environment, not host genetics.” Microbiome. 2021; 9:54.
Category: Clinical Research
Authors: Azadani EN et al.
Publication: “The association between traumatic dental and brain injuries in American children.” Dental Traumatology. 2021;37:114–122. Division of Pediatric Dentistry
Category: Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Health Research
Authors: Claman DB et al.
Publication: "Accuracy of Parental Self-Report of Medical History in a Dental Setting: Integrated Electronic Health Record and Nonintegrated Dental Record." Pediatric Dentistry. 2021;43(3):230-6. Division of Pediatric Dentistry
Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Research
Dental Student Awards
1st place:
William Vu 2022 (DDS)
Advisor: Purnima Kumar, BDS, PhD
Title: A Comparative Study on the Effects of E-Cigarettes and Smoking on the Oral Metabolome
2nd place
Joe Kainrad 2023 (DDS)
Advisor: Do-Gyoon Kim, PhD
Title: Gingival Epithelium Gene Regulation and Inflammatory Response to JUUL E-cigarettes
3rd place:
Parker Heiner 2023 (DDS)
Advisor: Ching-Chang Ko, DDS, PhD
Title: Dental crowding predicted by machine learning from clinical photos
Graduate Student Awards
1st place:
Shifa Shahid, PhD
Advisor: Brian Foster, PhD
Title: Dentoalveolar Defects from Neural Crest Conditional Deletion of Bone Sialoprotein
2nd place:
Michelle Scott, DDS/PhD
Advisor: Purnima Kumar, BDS, PhD
Title: Impact of JUUL e-cigarettes on oralhost microbial interactions
Center for Clinical and Translational Science Best Clinical and Translational Abstract
William Vu 2022 (DDS)
Advisor: Purnima Kumar, BDS, PhD
Title: A Comparative Study on the Effects of E-Cigarettes and Smoking on the Oral Metabolome
Post-doctoral Fellow Award
Fatma F. Mohamed, Division of Biosciences
Advisor: Brian L. Foster, PhD
Title: Alpl ablation in neural crest lineages causes dentoalveolar characteristic of hypophosphatasia
OSU Alumni Merit Award
Joe Kainrad 2023 (DDS)
Advisor: Do-Gyoon Kim, PhD
Title: Gingival Epithelium Gene Regulation and Inflammatory Response to JUUL E-cigarettes
OSU Alumni Achievement Award
Parker Heiner 2023 (DDS)
Advisor: Ching-Chang Ko, DDS, PhD
Title: Dental crowding predicted by machine learning from clinical photos
AADR Student Research Day Award
Kelly Doan 2022 (DDS)
Advisor: Do-Gyoon Kim, PhD
Title: Alveolar Bone Mineral Density in Women With Aging