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The Irish Division of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) held their Annual Scientific Meeting in Belfast during November where Stefania Magnano, Horizon 2020 TRACT funded PhD student supervised by Dr Jeff O’Sullivan (Dental Science) and Dr Danny Zisterer (Biochemistry & Immunology) achieved first place in President’s Poster competition for her work entitled “Pre-clinical evaluation of targeting autophagy for the treatment of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma”.

Just updating you on the EU  “Action on Alcohol” week, 20-24th Nov (http://www.awarh.eu/). This year’s theme is alcohol and cancer.

Congratulations to Alexandros Lazaris and to Grainne Brennan on recently completing their Ph.D.s under the supervision of Professor David Coleman and Dr. Anna Shore from the Division of Oral Biosciences, Microbiology Research Unit.

The Dublin Dental University would like to welcome our students who commenced their Masters in Clinical Dentistry.  This is a welcomed new programme to the Postgraduate Area for the Dental School.

The School of Dental Science runs a Day Programme each year for Transition Year students, taking a maximum of 50 students for the programme.

May we take this opportunity to wish the Class of 2017 best wishes as they leave the Dublin Dental University Hospital at the end of this week following their three years of postgraduate studies.

Hamna Maheen, a Final Year dental student was recently awarded the Leo Heslin Memorial Medal.

Another hugely successful Mouth Cancer Awareness Day took place in the DDUH on Wednesday 20th Septemeber.

The Dublin Dental University would like to welcome our students who commenced their Postgraduate Doctorate in Dental Surgery programme this week.  We hope they will enjoy their learning experience with us over the next 3 years.

A very successful evening of lectures was organised by Dr Esther O’Regan and  Dr. Denise MacCarthy hosted by the DDUH on Wednesday 28 June 2017 in the Large Lecture Theatre, Dublin Dental University Hospital.  The evening was chaired by Professor Leo Stassen, Professor / Chair Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Trinity College Dublin.    The CEO of the Dublin Dental University Hospital, Mr David Barry, was in attendance to welcome this important group of colleagues to the School.  There were 70 attendees from a wide range of health care units around the city and also staff and students from Trinity College.