Events
Pregame Professional Program - September 30
Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:00am to 10:00am
"Salivary Gland Tumors: Diagnosis and Management" Dr. Sherry Timmons
"Dental Manifestations of Systemic Disease" Drs. Kari Maas & Mary Kay Hill
News
Prakasam named chair of Periodontics
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Sivaraman Prakasam has joined the dental faculty at Iowa and been named chair of periodontics. With a strong department under Prakasam’s leadership, the Department of Periodontics will continue to excel in clinical care, teaching, and research.
NIH Awards Shrode Training Grant to Investigate Relationship Between Oral Microbiome and Multiple Sclerosis
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Rachel Shrode, a T90 trainee in the Iowa Institute of Oral Health Research and a PhD student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, was awarded an F31 grant.
Research grant awarded to orthodontics faculty extending research on the epigenetic causes of orofacial clefting
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Aline Petrin’s research on identical twins has shed led on the epigenetic causes of orofacial clefting. Her new study explores the epigenetic causes of mirrored clefting among twins.
NIH awards supplemental grant to dental faculty member
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Azeez Butali is extending his research on the genetics of orofacial clefts in African populations so that his team improve the reception and acceptance of genetic information found in their studies.
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national ranking for research funding
90 %
of incoming dental students chose Iowa because of the innovative curriculum