A group of dentists from Newcastle Dental School are celebrating a string of awards and successes. Rhiannon Davies was awarded the British Society for Dental Research (BSDR) Junior Colgate Prize for her research. Do patients with aggressive periodontitis have subclinical diabetes?, which was completed as part of an intercalating Masters in Research degree. Rhiannon will now represent the BSDR in the Junior Hatton Prize competition at the International Association for Dental Research Conference in Barcelona in 2010.
Rebecca Wassall, Clinical Fellow, has completed her PhD research project entitled Cytokine analysis in periodontitis patients with diabetes at Newcastle Dental School and James Field, a Clinical Fellow at Newcastle, is a winner of Oral and Dental Research Trust funding for his research 'Investigation into the erosive effects of fruit smoothies'.
Licenced to Thrill are (l-r) Rhiannon Davies, Rebecca Wassall, James Field, Professor Philip Preshaw (seated) and Claire Storey
Philip Preshaw (seated) has recently been promoted to Professor of Periodontology at Newcastle University, and has received a Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association for Dental Research. Claire Storey, Walport Academic Clinical Fellow, is a winner of Oral and Dental Research Trust funding for her research 'Investigation and quantification of key periodontal pathogens in diabetic patients'.
The group were pictured in James Bond mode at the BSDR conference dinner in Glasgow recently.
