IADR PRESS RELEASES

Alexandria, VA, USA – The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) are pleased to announce that IADR/AADR’s newest Journal, JDR Clinical & Translational Research (JDR CTR), has been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE.

Alexandria, Va., USA – The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) are pleased to announce that IADR/AADR’s newest Journal, the JDR Clinical & Translational Research (JDR CTR), won the PROSE Award for “Best New Journal in Biological and Life Sciences.”

The PROSE Awards, given annually by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, recognize the best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals and electronic content in 58 categories.

Alexandria, Va., USA – The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have published an article titled “Periodontitis in Chédiak-Higashi Syndrome: An Altered Immunoinflammatory Response” in the JDR Clinical & Translational Research (JDR CTR). In this study, Vivek Thumbigere Math, from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and authors from other institutes of NIH as well as the State University of Campinas, Piracicaba Dental School, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil sought to determine the periodontal status of patients with severe and mild forms of Chédiak-Higashi syndrome (CHS), a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the lysosomal trafficking regulator gene (LYST) — a gene that codes for a protein that helps with protein packaging and transport within cells.