News Archive

IADR ANZ award winners, September 2010

Congratulations to all the award winners at the IADR ANZ held in New South Wales. Particular congratulations go to Oral Health CRC winners:

  • Associate Professor John Harcourt, winner of the Alan Docking Award
  • Dr Samantha Byrne, winner of the Oral Biology award
  • Dr Nathan Cochrane, winner of the Community and Preventive Dentistry award

  • Dr Orit Oettinger-Barak, winner of the Colgate senior competition

IADR Unilever Hatton Award, July 2010

Congratulations to Oral Health CRC PhD student, Kheng Tan, second place winner in the senior basic science section of the IADR, Unilever Hatton Award in Barcelona, Spain for his poster titled "The response of Treponema denticola to Porphyromonas gingivalis". 

"Attending IADR allowed to understand how research is carried out in other laboratories and gave me a chance to interact with other investigators in my field," said Kheng. "Competing in the Hatton award was a wonderful experience that has helped me improve my presentation skills and explain my project to others".

  

Above: Kheng Tan in audience of IADR Barcelona, and at right with supervisor Stuart Dashper, in front of his winner poster.

 

Oral Health CRC researchers awarded BUPA Health Foundation award, July 2010

Congratulations to Professor Rodrigo Marino on being awarded the 2010 BUPA Health Foundation award for his initiative to develop resources for an interactive oral health intervention program harnessing new user-friendly social multimedia web technologies.

To find out more about the BUPA health foundation awards, please visit their website https://www.mbf.com.au/AboutMBF/TheBupaHealthFoundation/HealthAwards

 

Vietnam-Australia oral health symposium, June 2010

Health professions have gathered in Melbourne to discuss collaborations in Vietnam and Australian oral health. Dr John Rogers, conference chair and researcher with the Oral Health CRC, said that while there are many differences between the two countries, the oral health issues faced are remarkably similar...

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Particular thanks go to our guests of honour, A/Prof Trinh Dinh Hai (Director National Institute of Odonto-Stomatology and Vice Dean University of Odonto-Stomatology, Hanoi, Vietnam) and Dr Ngo Dong Khanh (Vice Director, National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), as well as Mr Bob McMullan MP, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance for opening the symposium.

Presentations from the day are available for download here (file size 6.7MB)

 

New dental research network will help patients, May 2010

The eviDent network has been launched. It provides opportunities for dentists to participate in research projects within their own clinics. At right, the Hon. Michael Wooldridge (Chairman of the Oral Health CRC) and Dr Anne Harrison (ADAVB President) at the official launch...

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Australian dental health set to improve with $31.6m funding boost, August 2009

Australians will benefit from improved dental health due to the $31.6m funding for a new Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre...

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