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The Oral Potentially Malignant Disorder (OPMD) day conference was held in Antwerp (August 30th-31st) and was attended by clinicians, pathologists and basic scientists from across Europe. The DDUH Oral Microbiome research group won the prize for best poster presentation with their study “Fusobacterium nucleatum recovered from OPMD induce cell migration and angiogenesis in vitro”. The study was carried out jointly by PhD students Ajith Selvaraj and Claire Crowley. Ajith’s PhD was supported by TCD through a Provost’s Scholarship award and Claire’s PhD is current supported by a grant from the Health Research Board.

Congratulations to Dr. Michaela Kearney who was awarded the Pulp Biology & Regeneration Group Travel Award for her research presentation at the IADR conference held in Bogotá, Colombia on the 24th of June.

Postdoc James O’Connor Moneley received a special commendation for his research presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Irish Fungal Society held on the 22nd of June in DCU. The title of his presentation was “The Candida albicans Telomere-associated ORF (TLO) gene family is implicated in tolerance to fluconazole”.

The Minister for Health invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for consideration to the role of Chairperson and Ordinary member of the board of Dublin Dental Hospital.

"The great and generous Christy Dignam supporting 2016 Mouth Cancer Awareness Day in Dublin Dental University Hospital.

The great and generous Christy Dignam supporting 2016 Mouth Cancer Awareness Day in Dublin Dental University Hospital.

Congratulations to Nicole Kavanagh from the Microbiology Group Division IV who was awarded a prize for a poster she presented on her PhD research at the recent Infection Prevention Control Ireland annual national conference held at Croke Park on the 19th of May 2023.

Congratulations to all who took place in the Clinical Audit Presentation Evening on Thursday, May 18th.  The standard of audits was high and picking winners was a difficult task for the judges.

Sviatlana Anishchuk and Angus Burns graduated from Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday April 4th 2023 with Masters in Education, having completed the 3-year part-time programme in the School of Education, TCD. Ms Anishchuk is a Dental Hygiene Tutor and Dr Burns is a Consultant Orthodontist/ Senior Lecturer, both based in the Dublin Dental University Hospital.