IADR PRESS RELEASES

Alexandria, VA, USA – 2019 marks the Centennial of the Journal of Dental Research (JDR). Over the last century the JDR has been dedicated to the dissemination of new knowledge and information on all sciences relevant to dentistry and to the oral cavity and associated structures in health and disease. The June 2019 issue of the JDR features the article “A Century of Change Towards Prevention and Minimal Intervention in Cariology” by Nicola Innes, University of Dundee, Scotland, Chun Chu, University of Hong Kong, SRA, China, Margherita Fontana, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Edward Lo, University of Hong Kong, SRA, China, Murray Thomson, The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Sergio Uribe, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Max Heiland, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Sören Jespen, University of Bonn, Germany and Falk Schwendicke, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.

David Cruz Walma is a Medical Research Scholars Program Fellow in the lab of Kenneth Yamada in the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) and an oncoming fourth year D.M.D. student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Dentistry. His research interests focus on using state-of-the-art cellular and structural biology approaches to discover novel molecular mechanisms regulating developmental health and disease of the head and neck. 

David has received several research awards and mentoring recognitions, including the 2018 William S. Kramer Award of Excellence, has held various student leadership positions and is passionate about mentoring. Via the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, David will become a graduate research student at the University of Oxford, England in 2019 under the dual-mentorship of Alex Bullock and Kenneth Yamada. 

Alexandria, Va., USA – The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) announced today that it has selected Alexandra Rogers-DeCotes as the 2019 AADR Gert Quigley Government Affairs Fellow.