The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) held its annual meeting June 21-24 in Bogotá, Colombia. Several faculty, students, and alumni attended the meeting, presented their research, and represented the University of Iowa well. Some highlights from the meeting include:

• Lord Jephthah Joojo Gowans is the 2023 recipient of the IADR Smile Train Cleft Research Award. Gowans was a PhD student of Azeez Butali, professor in the Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology, and Medicine and the world's foremost expert in cleft lip and palate research in African populations. Gowans is now on faculty at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, in Ghana. Last year, another student of Butali, Azeez Alade, won the inaugural 2022 IADR Smile Train Cleft Research Award.
• Emmanuel Aladenik, Abimbla Oladayo, and Mojisola Olujitan, all graduate students in the Butali lab, and third-year dental student Jorge Ceballos, mentored by Butali, presented their research at the meeting in a session chaired by Butali and Brad Amendt, professor of anatomy and cell biology.
• Aladenik and Olujitan received Craniofacial Biology Junior Awards for their research presentations.
• Sandra Guzman-Armstrong, clinical professor of operative dentistry, gave the keynote for the Minimally Invasion Dentistry Network.
• Teresa Marshall, Michael W. Finkelstein Centennial Professor of Teaching and director of the University of Iowa Dental Student Research Program, participated in a symposium on breastfeeding.
• Thiago Porter, assistant professor of operative dentistry also presented their research at the conference. Guzman-Armstrong and Porter also chaired their sessions.