2018
- October 22, 2018
Andrei Zaharia presents at the CDA/Dentsply Sirona Student Clinician Research Program
Andrei Zaharia (DDS 2019), represented Schulich Dentistry at the 2018 CDA/Dentsply Sirona Student Clinician Research Program which took place during the Canadian Dental Association (CDA) Convention in Charlottetown, PEI. Zaharia (supervised by Dr. Amin Rizkalla), was awarded this opportunity during Schulich Dentistry’s Annual Research Day by placing in the top 3 poster presentations. (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 Maher Alazzam (DDS 2021) and Kristen Desranleau (DDS 2020), who were successful (along with 9 other DDS Students) in being awarded a 2018 Dentistry Summer Research Studentship. Alazzam and Desranleau will be supervised by Drs. Amin Rizkalla and Doug Hamilton, and carry out their work in the Rizkalla lab. Maher Alazzam will work on a project entitled ‘Novel bioactive covalently bonded hybrid coatings on titanium surfaces', and Kristen Desranleau will work on a project entitled ‘3-D Printed Bioactive Glass-Copolymer Scaffolds for Bone Augmentation'. (Read full entry)
- March 28, 2018
Three-dimensional solutions
Schulich Dentistry researchers are developing novel applications of three-dimensional (3D) printing for use in cranio-facial reconstruction. Amin Rizkalla, PhD, PEng, is the principal investigator and he is working with a team of people, including Yara Hosein, PhD, Drs. Joe Armstrong and Henry Lapointe, as well as David Holdsworth, PhD, to determine how 3D printing can be utilized to develop porous titanium constructs for craniofacial reconstruction. They are hoping that their research will help to solve a large problem in current craniofacial reconstruction methods. See full article on The Bridge (Read full entry)
