The University of Iowa College of Dentistry is pleased to announce the 2024 Seed Grant Awards. This is the fourth year of the seed grant program, and these grants fund innovative projects from early-career investigators or established investigators who are developing a new line of research.

Dr. Chonghwa Kim started in the Department of Family Dentistry on Dec. 29 after several years in South Korea.

Kandyce Larson, Brooke McInroy, Tessa Heeren, Elizabeth T Momany and Peter C Damiano, 2023

Kyungsup Shin, the Ross D. Christensen Family Professor of Orthodontics and Graduate Program Director, spoke on a panel during the annual meeting of the American Board of Orthodontics in St. Louis.

Third-year DDS/PhD student Michael Chavez received an award for most outstanding student presentation for his project “Exogenous Bone Sialoprotein Enhances Alveolar Bone Healing in Mice.”

Rachel Fitzjerrells 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.

The University of Iowa College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics was voted by the community as Iowa City's best dental clinic.

Iowa Dentistry hosted the Midwest Dental Public Health Conference on October 15-16, 2023. With lectures from dental public health experts around the country and throughout the Midwest, the conference was a great success.

S.C. McKernan, E.T. Momany, J.M.C. Sukalski, M.P. Jones, P.C. Damiano and R.A. Kuthy, JDR Clinical and Translational Research, 2023

Third-year DDS student Jackie Yeh received the Academy of Dental Materials University Student Award for her research with Dr. Salah Abuhammoud and Dr. Carlos Jurado.