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Noy Pinto and Chongshan Liao Named 2022 Winners of the IADR Joseph Lister Award for New Investigators

Alexandria, VA, USA, June 22, 2022 – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 IADR Joseph Lister Award for New Investigators. The winners were recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 100th General Session & Exhibition of the IADR, held in conjunction with the 5th Meeting of the Asia Pacific Region on June 20-25, 2022.

The Awards Competition was created to award new investigators with original research in oral disease prevention or oral health promotion. Monetary Awards include $5,000 USD to the First Place Winner, $3,000 USD to the Second Place Winner and $500 USD to each of the eight runners up. The IADR Joseph Lister Award for New Investigators is managed by the IADR and supported by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.

The competition was held on June 21, 2022 and the winners are:

1st Place - Noy Pinto      
Resolvin D1 Improved Allograft Osteointegration via Osteoblasts Differentiation Enhancement
The Hebrew University – Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

2nd Place - Chongshan Liao      
hBMSCs Exosomes Regulate the Balance of Th17/Treg in Periodontitis Patients
Tongji University, Shanghai, China

The eight runners up are:

Joao Nuno Ferreira, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Archana Kamalakar, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Yuhan Li, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Okba Mahmoud, Ajman University, United Arab Emirates
Chukwuebuka Ogwo, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Janak Lal Pathak, Guangzhou Medical University, China
Tzu-Yu Peng, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Xin Zheng, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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