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Dublin Dental University Hospital will be accepting applications for the September 2024 intake to the Clinical Doctorate in Dental Surgery (D.Ch.Dent) full-time (3-year) and part-time (5-year) programmes until 30th November 2023 (inclusive). Applications for these programmes should be made online at https://www.tcd.ie/courses/postgraduate/courses/dental-surgery-dchdent/.

Dublin Dental University Hospital will be accepting applications for the September 2024 intake to the Clinical Doctorate in Dental Surgery (D.Ch.Dent) full-time (3-year) and part-time (5-year) programmes until 30th November 2023 (inclusive). Applications for these programmes should be made online at https://www.tcd.ie/courses/postgraduate/courses/dental-surgery-dchdent/.

Dear Patients, 

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.