2018
- October 10, 2018
Peter Sabiri (Summer Research Student) wins Travel Award
Congratulations to Peter Sabri (DDS 2021) on being awarded one of three 2018 Schulich Dentistry Research Day Travel Awards. Peter will represent our Schulich Dentistry Summer Student Research Program at the prestigious 25th Hinman Student Research Symposium in Memphis, TN. Peter was supervised in the summer by Dr. Doug Hamilton, and will present his project entitled 'Epsilon Sarcoglycan as a novel mediator of cell adhesion to titanium'. (Read full entry)
- October 04, 2018
Adam Hopfgartner successfully defended his MESc Thesis
Congratulations to Adam Hopfgartner for successfully defending his MESc (Masters of Engineering Science) thesis in Biomedical Engineering, supervised by Dr. Douglas Hamilton and Dr. Geoff Pickering. Title of Thesis: Development of Granulation tissue mimetic scaffolds for skin healing. (Read full entry)
- August 20, 2018
CIHR Funding Success
Congratulations to our Schulich Dentistry Faculty Members on their success in the recent 2018 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Funding Competition: Douglas Hamilton - $703,800 for 5 years | Co-applicants: Les Kalman, Mark Darling, Amin Rizkalla | Project title: Novel Biomaterials‐Based Strategies to Stimulate Periodontal Tissue Regeneration (Read full entry)
- June 14, 2018
Schulich Medicine & Dentistry collaborative research group successful in competition
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awarded a Schulich Medicine & Dentistry research group with a Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) operating grant for their project entitled, ‘Novel technologies for engineering closure of non-healing skin wounds’. This multi-disciplinary collaborative research team consists of biologists, engineers, imaging specialists, a veterinarian, clinicians, and industrial collaborator. Primary Investigators include Dr. Douglas Hamilton (Dentistry/Anatomy & Cell Biology) and Dr. Amin Rizkalla (Dentistry/Chemical & Biochemical Engineering), along with David Bagley. Bagley is the CEO of Advanced BioMatrix, Inc. in San Diego, where they manufacture & distribute collagen and other quality 3D matrix products, specializing in three dimensional (3D) applications for tissue culture, cell assay, and cell proliferation. (Read full entry)
- June 11, 2018
Dental students awarded summer studentships
Congratulations to Tianhui Li (DDS 2021) and Peter Sabiri (DDS 2021), who were successful (along with 9 other DDS Students) in being awarded a 2018 Dentistry Summer Research Studentship. Li and Sabiri will be supervised by Dr. Doug Hamilton. Tianhui Li will work on a project entitled ‘Influence of nanometric topography on human gingival cell physiology', and Peter Sabiri will work on a project entitled ‘Epsilon Sarcoglycan as a novel mediator of cell adhesion to titanium'. (Read full entry)
- April 23, 2018
Schulich Students presented at AADR/CADR Annual Meeting March
Shawna Kim and Georgia Nikoloudaki presented their research posters at the Annual General Meeting of the CADR (Canadian Association for Dental Research), held in conjunction with the annual AADR meeting, in Fort Lauderdale in March. Congratulations to Georgia Nikoloudaki, DDS (PhD candidate), supervised by Dr. Douglas Hamilton, who had earlier competed for and won a CADR-NCOHR Student Research (Travel) Award to attend and present at this annual meeting. This award was sponsored by the Canadian Association for Dental Research (CADR) and the Network for Canadian Oral Health Research (NCOHR). (Read full entry)
