2017
- November 22, 2017
Andrei Zaharia (DDS 2018), attends Colgate Dental Students' Conference on Research
Andrei Zaharia travelled to Maryland to present his research at the American Dental Association (ADA) Foundation’s 53nd Annual Colgate Dental Students’ Conference in October 2017. Andrei competed for this travel award at Schulich Dentistry's 2016 Annual Research Day with his poster “Novel bioactive, fast-setting and injectable bone cement for bone augmentation”, supervised by Drs. Amin Rizkalla and Jeff Dixon, in Dentistry's Summer Research Program (Read full entry)
- October 26, 2017
Andrei Zaharia - CDA/Dentsply Travel Award
Congratulations to Andrei Zaharia, DDS 2019 (Rizkalla Lab Summer Research Student), for winning the CDA/Dentsply Travel Award in the Junior Category for his poster presentation at Schulich Dentistry Annual Research Day. Title: Novel Bioactive and Injectable, Co-Polymer-Reinforced Bone Cement for Bone Augmentation. Andrei will represent Schulich Dentistry at the 2018 CDA National Oral Health Conference. This was Andrei’s second summer working with Dr. Rizkalla. (Read full entry)
- June 20, 2017
Dental students awarded summer studentships
Congratulations to Shokoufeh Yaseri (DDS 2020) and Andrei Zaharia (DDS 2019), who were successful (along with 13 other DDS Students) in being awarded a 2017 Dentistry Summer Research Studentship. Yaseri and Zaharia will both work in the Rizkalla Lab. Shokoufeh Yaseri will work on a project entitled 'Surface functionalization of titanium with bioactive glass to improve osteoblast recruitment at implant surface', and Andrei Zaharia will work on a project entitled 'Novel bioactive, fast-setting and injectable bone cement for bone augmentation - continuation'. The Dentistry Summer Student Research Program provides an opportunity for students enrolled in the DDS program to contribute to clinical and basic science research being performed in Schulich Dentistry. Each year, there are a limited number of Studentships awarded by competition. Learn more about Dentistry's Summer Research Program. (Read full entry)
- April 17, 2017
Dr. Amin Rizkalla awarded a Collaborative Research Seed Grant (CRSG)
Congratulations to Dr. Amin Rizkalla (Oral Biology, Schulich Dentistry) for his project entitled '‘Optimization of 3D-Printed Porous Titanium Constructs for Craniofacial Reconstuction’. Co-Investigators include Dr. Henry Lapointe (Schulich Dentistry) and Dr. Yara Hosein (Engineering). Collaborative Research Seed Grants (CRSG) provide recipients with seed funding for the formation and development of new interdisciplinary collaborative research teams. The intent is to promote new collaborations that build on different scientific and scholarly backgrounds, to facilitate breakthroughs in solving research questions in a collaborative manner, and to position the School's researchers to successfully respond to targeted requests for proposals from Tri-Council or other funding agencies. (Read full entry)
