Press Releases
2009
16 November 2009
Professor Crispian Scully CBE awarded Honorary Doctorate of the University of Granada, Spain More>>
28 October 2009
Professor Crispian Scully CBE receives BMA Medical Book Award commendation More>>
Third edition of Aviva Petrie’s essential textbook Medical Statistics at a Glance now available More>>
19 October 2009
Professor Crispian Scully CBE awarded Medal of Honour by the University of Granada More>>
16 October 2009
Professor Nikolaos Donos awarded honorary professorship and fellowship in dental surgery More>>
14 October 2009
Eastman staff help to raise awareness of mouth cancer More>>
Eastman Paediatric Dentist Wins Poster Prize More>>
19 August 2009
Eastman Researcher Awarded RCS Grant More>>
Emeritus Professor of Dental Health Policy More>>
Eastman awarded £150k educational grant from ITI More>>
30 July 2009
Meeting of the fifth triennial Conservation / Prosthodontic Alumni More>>
17 July 2009
Eastman Orthodontist wins prestigious award More>>
EDI/UCL Chemistry collaboration creates antimicrobial surfaces to fight hospital-acquired infections More>>
UCL Eastman host beneficiaries of the EAOM Travel Bursary More>>
Prof Needleman contributes to innovative textbook on oral health research design More>>
Professor Scully honoured by the Spanish Society of Oral Medicine More>>
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July 2009
Eastman academics contribute to new book on periodontal disease and systems biology More>>
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June 2009
Dr Susan Cunningham elected Honorary Secretary of EOS More>>
9 June 2009
Success at 2009 International PhD Student Cancer Conference More>>
Professor Mike Wilson edits new book on food constituents and oral
health More>>
22 May 2009
Dr Nagihan Bostanci is awarded the IADR/Philips Oral Healthcare
Young Investigator Research Grant More>>
13 May 2009
Professor Crispian Scully CBE receives Most Outstanding Achievements
in Dentistry award More>>
12 May 2009
Dr Francesco D’Aiuto is awarded the Anthony Rizzo
Young Investigator Award More>>
11 May 2009
Eastman host the British Society for Disability and Oral Health
annual conference More>>
6 May 2009
Professors Scully and Porter contribute to Scott-Brown's Otorhinolaryngology
More>>
16 April 2009
Researchers at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute reveal increase
in child tooth decay
More>>
7 April 2009
Scientists at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute develop
novel approaches for killing MRSA and E.coli More>>
30 March 2009
Professors Crispian Scully and Raman Bedi contribute a chapter to
Manson's Tropical Diseases More>>
27 March 2009
Dr Mark Lewis awarded £140,000 charitable donation for research
into 3D models for the study of ameloblastoma More>>
Dr Mark Lewis and Miss Rishma Shah provide a chapter for major new Tissue Engineering textbook More>>
25 March 2009
Professor Jonathan Knowles selected as Visiting Professor
under the Korean Government’s World Class Universities scheme
More>>
2 March 2009
Professor Brian Henderson awarded £240,000 grant
funding from the British Heart Foundation More>>
EDI academics contribute to the recently published book Cellular
Response to Biomaterials More>>
13 February 2009
Professor Michael Wilson and Dr Derren Ready consult on
the making of Co-Existence, a new art-work commissioned by the Wellcome
Trust More>>
14 January 2009
UCL Eastman research receives support from the EPSRC-funded Industrial
Doctoral Training Centre in Molecular Modelling & Materials
Science at UCL More>>
5 January 2009
EDI celebrates an excellent outcome in the 2008 Research Assessment
Exercise More>>
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Professor Crispian Scully CBE awarded Honorary Doctorate of the University of Granada, Spain
Professor Crispian Scully CBE has been awarded a further Doctorate in recognition of the international impact of his scientific work in the field of oral medicine and special care dentistry. The University of Granada, Spain has awarded Professor Scully the Doctorate after a long and successful history of collaboration with colleagues in Spain, including having co-authored many research publications and books with Spanish academics.
The University of Granada, founded in 1531 has several campuses in the city of Granada (Aynadamar, Cartuja, Fuentenueva and Centro) and in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and has almost 80,000 students - with more students from international mobility programmes than any other Spanish university. At the ceremony in Granada, Doctorates were bestowed upon Professor Crispian Scully and Dr Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, one of Latin Americas leading authors, both prolific authors in their respective fields.
Image: Professor Crispian Scully and Dr Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa receive Honorary Doctorates of the University of Granada, Spain
28 October 2009
Professor Crispian Scully CBE receives BMA Medical Book Award commendation
The British Medical Association (BMA) has awarded a highly commended certificate to Professor Crispian Scully CBE for his textbook Oral & Maxillofacial Medicine: The Basis of Diagnosis and Treatment (second edition Elsevier) in the 2009 round of its Medical Book Awards. The first edition, which won the New authored book award of the Society of Authors and Royal Society of Medicine Prize (2004), has been reprinted several times and published also in Chinese and Polish.
The BMA annual competition awards prizes in 26 categories and aims to encourage and reward excellence in medical publishing. Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine was commended in the Medical Book category. The book offers up-to-date, practical guidance on the whole range of common and potentially serious disorders affecting the oral and maxillofacial region.
Professor Crispian Scully is the most prolific author in Dentistry worldwide, whose books have received wide recognition including the Doody prize (1999).
Third edition of Aviva Petrie’s essential textbook Medical Statistics at a Glance now available
Medical Statistics at a Glance, written by Aviva Petrie, Head of Biostatistics and Senior Lecturer at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute and Caroline Sabin, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London is now available in its third edition.
This popular reference text, published by Wiley-Blackwell, offers a concise and accessible introduction and revision aid for this complex subject. The self-contained chapters explain the underlying concepts of statistics in medicine and dentistry and provide a guide to the most commonly used statistical procedures.
In its new edition the book includes a new chapter on developing prognostic scores and also introduces new and expanded material on study management, multi-centre studies, sequential trials, bias and different methods to remove confounding in observational studies, multiple comparisons, ROC curves and checking assumptions in a logistic regression analysis.
The book’s companion website at www.medstatsaag.com contains supplementary material including an extensive reference list and multiple choice questions (MCQs) with interactive answers for self-assessment.
19 October 2009
Professor Crispian Scully CBE awarded Medal of Honour by the University of Granada
The University of Granada, Spain has awarded Professor Crispian Scully CBE its Medal of Honour. The medal is in recognition of the tremendous impact of Professor Scully’s scientific work in the field of oral medicine and for his collaborative work with the School of Dentistry, University of Granada. The award was presented to Professor Scully by Professor Alberto Rodríguez Archilla, Dean of University of Granada.
Professor Scully has a long and successful history of collaboration with Spanish colleagues including having co-authored many research publications and books with Spanish academics.
Image: Professor Scully receiving the Medal of Honor from Professor Alberto Rodríguez Archilla
16 October 2009
Professor Nikolaos Donos awarded honorary professorship and fellowship in dental surgery
Professor Nikolaos Donos has been awarded a prestigious honorary professorship by the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Hong Kong (FDHKU). Professor Donos took up the honorary position with effect from 1st October 2009. His appointment presents an exciting opportunity to further strengthen the research and teaching collaborations between FDHKU and the UCL Eastman Dental Institute.
Professor Donos has also been conferred the Fellowship in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The award was granted by election in recognition of “the enormous contribution that [Professor Donos] made to the profession”.
Eastman staff help to raise awareness of mouth cancer
Past and present members of staff from the Eastman Dental Hospital and Institute Oral Medicine unit screened participants and members of the public for oral cancer and precancer during the Mouth Cancer Foundation's 4th annual sponsored 10K Walk. The annual event is organised to highlight Mouth Cancer Awareness Week which will be taking place between 15th and 21st November 2009. To mark the countdown to the week the Mouth Cancer Foundation held the sponsored 10K Walk on Saturday 26 September 2009 in Hyde Park, London. Sabine Jurge, Esther Hullah, Maureen Sweeney, Martyn Ormond, Sujata Sharma, Anj Sharma, Tim Hodgson and Stefano Fedele were on-hand in the mobile dental unit to provide screening for members of the public on the day. Hundreds of individuals participated in the event raising awareness of the presentation, prevention and risk factors associated with mouth cancer.
Image (from left to right): Sabine Jurge, Esther Hullah, Maureen Sweeney, Martyn Ormond, Sujata Sharma, Anj Sharma
Links:
http://www.mouthcancerfoundation.org
Eastman Paediatric Dentist Wins Poster Prize
The Eastman would like to congratulate Purvi Shah, an SPR in Paediatric Dentistry at the UCLHT Eastman Dental Hospital (EDH) on receiving the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry’s (BSPD) Poster Prize at the National meeting in September 2009. The prize is awarded annually to a BSPD member for the best poster presentation of the conference. Entitled "Double teeth: A review of cases at the Eastman Dental Hospital" the poster was based on work she undertook as part of her training. The project was supervised by Dr Paul Ashley of UCL EDI, Mr Joe Noar and Mrs Prabhleen Anand of UCLHT EDH who are all co-authors of the poster.
Eastman Researcher Awarded RCS Grant
A prestigious and highly competitive grant of £10k from the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England has been awarded to Dr Rishma Shah, Clinical Lecturer in Orthodontics at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute, to support her research into craniofacial muscle engineering.
Dr Shah commenced the orthodontic training programme at the Eastman Dental Institute in 2000, and completed her MSc with distinction in 2002, obtaining the Membership in Orthodontics in 2003. She obtained the Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship Examination in orthodontics in 2006 and is in the final stages of her PhD studies supervised by Professor Mark Lewis and Professor Nigel Hunt.
The award will enable Dr Shah to continue developing her research which she is undertaking for her PhD thesis. The aim of the research is to produce a craniofacial skeletal muscle test bed for the investigation of muscle therapies and to examine the use of degradable glass fibre scaffolds as a support for the regeneration of muscle tissue. The ultimate goal is to provide muscle tissue for those patients who are missing facial muscle tissue due to congenital or acquired reasons.
Dr Shah’s main clinical practice involves the management and treatment of complex multidisciplinary cases within the orthodontic unit. Her other research interests include the functional and structural responses of craniofacial muscle to various in vitro manipulations and the engineering of the dentine-pulp complex.
Emeritus Professor of Dental Health Policy
Professor Martin Downer has been conferred the title of Emeritus Professor of Dental Health Policy by the Provost, Professor Malcolm Grant.
Professor Downer was previously Professor of Dental Health Policy at UCL and had also previously held the position of Chief Dental Officer for England in the Department of Health.
Eastman awarded £150k educational grant from ITI
Congratulations to Professor Nikolaos Donos, Periodontology Unit, who has been awarded an educational grant of £150K from the International Team for Implantology (ITI). The award, made by the ITI’s University Programmes Committee, will fund the development of an ITI Centre of Excellence at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute (EDI) which will deliver an intermediate level continuing education course in implant dentistry delivered at the Eastman’s Continuing Professional Development facility. The award places EDI in the global elite in terms of implant dentistry education.
The course will be delivered by the Eastman’s internationally renowned faculty from the Units of Periodontology, Prosthodontics and CPD.
Apart from Professor Donos, congratulations also to the team that assisted with the preparation of the successful bid for the Eastman consisting of Professor Stephen Porter, Mr. Geoffrey Dunk, Professor Andrew Eder, Ms Anita Graham, Dr Christos Louca, Mr. Naresh Pindolia and Ms Karen Widdowson.
Meeting of the fifth triennial Conservation / Prosthodontic Alumni
The fifth triennial Conservation / Prosthodontic Alumni took place on Thursday June 25th and Friday June 26th 2009. The event and dinner was attended by over 250 delegates from all over the world.
Thursday was held at the Eastman and involved presentations on novel clinical techniques, specialisation in dentistry and current research in the Prosthodontic Unit. Friday was held at the Russell Hotel and involved presentations on the past present and future of the Prosthodontic Unit.
The meeting also marked the last period of Derrick Setchell having a full time involvement with the Unit.
The meeting and social events were a great success and enjoyed by all.
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Eastman Orthodontist wins prestigious award
The Eastman would like to congratulate Joanne Collins, an FTTA in orthodontics at the UCLHT Eastman Dental Hospital (EDH) and Kingston Hospital NHS Trust on receiving the British Orthodontic Society’s (BOS) highly competitive Chapman Prize.
Awarded annually to a BOS member for the best published article of the year, the prestigious prize is awarded to an article that contains original material on an orthodontic or allied subject.
Entitled "Changes in the gender and ethnic balance of the United Kingdom orthodontic workforce", Joanne Collins article was published in the British Dental Journal and based on research she undertook for her MSc project whilst on the MOrth training programme at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute (EDI). The project was supervised by Dr Susan Cunningham and Professor Nigel Hunt of EDI, Professor David Moles, (formerly EDI) and Professor John Galloway of UCLHT EDH who are all co-authors of the paper.
Image (from left to right): Professor Nigel Hunt, Dr Joanne Collins and Dr Susan Cunningham.
UCL Eastman host beneficiaries of the EAOM Travel Bursary
The Eastman Oral Medicine Unit has hosted two colleagues from Zagreb, Croatia who won the prestigious European Association of Oral Medicine Travel Bursary awarded for junior faculty to gain experience in other European units. Danica Vidovic Duras (2008) and Vlahov Brailo (2009) both spent 6 weeks with the Oral Medicine team gaining clinical experience and looking specifically at systemic immuosuppression and complex oro facial pain patients respectively. Both have returned to Zagreb with ideas to modify their clinical practice and will present their experience to colleagues at the biennial meeting.
Image (Left to right): Dr Tim Hodgson, Dr Danica Vidovic Duras, Ms Natasha Simpson, Dr Sujata Sharma, Dr Anne Hegarty, Dr Vlahov Brailo and Dr Tim Hodgson.
Prof Needleman contributes to innovative textbook on oral health research design
Professor Ian Needleman has contributed a chapter to an innovative textbook on oral health research design. The chapter, co-authored with Professor Helen Worthington from the University of Manchester, focuses on the effective use of research data for evidence-based oral health care.
Statistical and Methodological Aspects of Oral Health Research (Wiley 2009), is edited by Prof Emmanuel Lessafre and Dominique Declerck from Leuven, Belgium, Prof. Brian Leroux, University of Washington and Prof Jocelyn Feine, McGill University, Quebec representing an international team of experts.
The book explains contemporary developments in oral health research with practical guidance in achieving high quality studies and their analysis. These include clinical trials, epidemiological designs, qualitative studies, genetic research, Bayesian approaches and studies of diagnostic accuracy. The book has been designed as a practical guide to clinical researchers, biostatisticians and readers of oral health research.
ISBN: 978-0-470-57192-5
Professor Scully honoured by the Spanish Society of Oral Medicine
Congratulations to Professor Crispian Scully CBE on the award of the Honorific Recognition of the Spanish Society of Oral Medicine. Professor Scully is the first British academic to be honoured with the award which recognises his enormous academic and clinical contributions to the specialty of Oral Medicine world-wide and the Iberian world in particular, with productive collaborations mainly in Portugal (Oporto), Spain (Granada, Santiago, Valencia) and South America (Araraquara, Campinas, Goiana, Mexico City, Recife, Sao Paulo and Trinidad). The award was presented to Professor Scully in Granada, Spain by Professor Antonio Bascones, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Image (from left to right): Professor Alberto Rodríguez Archilla; Professor Antonio Bascones (President of SSOM); Professor Crispian Scully; Professor Miguel Angel Gonzales-Moles; Professor Pedro Diz Dios; Professor Jose-Manuel Aguirre; Professor Jose-Vicente Bagan.
1 July 2009
Eastman academics contribute to new book on periodontal disease and systems biology
Eastman academics have contributed to a major new reference work which provides a scientific roadmap of the interactions which can lead to periodontal disease and introduces the concept of Systems Dentistry. Periodontal disease is probably the most common chronic inflammatory and destructive human disease and is caused by an inappropriate host response to the multiple bacteria present in the human mouth.
The book, entitled Periodontal Medicine and Systems Biology, was edited by Professor Brian Henderson, Division of Microbial Diseases, and Professor Nikolaos Donos, Director of Research Strategy and Head of Periodontology, from the UCL Eastman Dental Institute along with Professor Robert Seymour, UCL Department of Mathematics and Professor Michael Curtis, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Its five sections cover; systems theory and cooperative bacteria, periodontitis – the clinical disease, periodontitis – coping with the microbiota, periodontitis – innate and acquired immunity and periodontitis – mechanisms of bone destruction.
Three of the book’s chapters were written by Eastman academics, reflecting the breadth of expertise of the Eastman faculty on the subject. Professor Nikos Donos and Dr Francesco D’Aiuto outline the modern clinical picture; Drs Jonathan Pratten and Nicola Mordan describe the relationship of biofilm to periodontitis and Professor Brian Henderson and Dr Sean Nair detail bacterial osteolytic mediators.
Periodontal Medicine and Systems Biology is published by Wiley-Blackwell.
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2219-1.
25 June 2009
Dr Susan Cunningham elected Honorary Secretary of EOS
Congratulations to Dr Susan Cunningham on being elected Honorary Secretary of the European Orthodontic Society. Elections for office took place at the European Orthodontic Congress 2009 which was held in Helsinki, Finland from 10th – 13th June. The post of Honorary Secretary carries a 5 year term.
9 June 2009
Success at 2009 International PhD Student Cancer Conference
Congratulations to Dr Shahid Chaudhry, Specialist Registrar in Oral Medicine / CR-UK Clinical Research Fellow, who was awarded 2nd Prize for his oral presentation entitled "Analysis of the cytoskeleton in squamous cell carcinoma - the role of ubiquitin linked pathways" at the 2009 International PhD Student Cancer Conference.
The conference is organized by students for students. This year it was hosted and organised by students from the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (LRI) and attended by students from the three Cancer Research UK institutes as well as other leading European cancer research centres. The conference took place in London from the 3rd to 5th June 2009.
9 June 2009
Professor Mike Wilson edits new book on food constituents and oral health
Professor Mike Wilson’s new book entitled Food constituents and oral health: current status and future prospects, published by Woodhead Publishing/CRC press, provides a state-of-the-art overview of what is known about the role that the diet and its various constituents play in the oral health of humans. It summarises the ways in which such knowledge may be used to not only provide new ways of improving oral health but also to reduce the adverse effects of certain dietary constituents and practices.
The oral cavity consists of a complex system of tissues and organs whose collective functions are to select food that is acceptable for intake and to process that food into a form suitable for digestion by the rest of the gastrointestinal tract. Consequently, the maintenance of this multifunctional organ complex in a healthy state is very important to the wellbeing of the individual. Physical damage to any of the oral cavity’s many components may have a detrimental effect on one or more of its functions but, in addition, the large variety of dietary constituents processed by the mouth throughout the lifetime of the individual may also impact on its ability to perform its many tasks. It has long been known that dietary sugars can have a detrimental effect on oral health as they are a major factor in the aetiology of dental caries. However, it is now apparent that other constituents of the human diet can also affect oral health – some exerting a beneficial effect while others are potentially detrimental.
Contributions from UCL Eastman Dental Institute academics include a chapter on Viral and fungal infections of the oral cavity by Professor Stephen Porter and a chapter on Alcohol and oral health co-authored by Professor Crispian Scully CBE.
22 May 2009
Dr Nagihan Bostanci is awarded the IADR/Philips Oral Healthcare Young Investigator Research Grant
The UCL Eastman Dental Institute would like to congratulate Dr Nagihan Bostanci on being awarded the IADR/Philips Oral Healthcare Young Investigator Research Grant. This internationally competitive award is offered through the IADR Periodontal Research Group and carries a value of U.S. $10,000. It was awarded to Dr Bostanci for her research proposal entitled “The RANKL-OPG system and TACE as prognostic biomarkers for Periodontitis”. The award was presented at the International Association for Dental Research 87th General Session & Exhibition in Miami, USA in April 2009.
Professor Iain Chapple (right) presents the award to Dr Nagihan Bostanci (left)
13 May 2009
Professor Crispian Scully CBE receives Most Outstanding Achievements in Dentistry award
Friends and colleagues at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute would like to extend their warmest congratulations to Professor Crispian Scully CBE whose tireless dedication to the dental profession was recognised though the award of Most Outstanding Achievements in Dentistry at the 2009 Dental Awards. The award was presented at a gala dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on 24th April 2009.
Professor Scully’s achievements to date span a wealth of more than 40 years’ experience. He joined the Eastman Dental Institute in 1993 and took up the position of Dean and Director of Studies and Research in 1994, remaining in the position until 2008 having been re-appointed on a record two occasions. He is an internationally renowned researcher, clinician and teacher in the field of oral health with inspirational leadership and vision. A founder of several academies and clinical research centres, he has contributed immensely to dental education and research across the globe. He is the founding editor of Oral Oncology and Oral Diseases and is on the editorial board of many international journals – to name but a few of his notable achievements. This dedication has seen him receive the Dental Award for the Most Outstanding Achievements in Dentistry, the UK Man of the Year Award (American Biographical Institute) and many doctorates and gold medals at respected Global Universities, as well as the CBE.
Professor Scully continues to prove his commitment to dentistry both nationally and internationally and his current appointments include Director of Special Projects at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute, appointment to the position of President Elect of the International Academy of Oral Oncology and board member of both the Eastman Foundation for Oral Research and Training (EFFORT) and the Mouth Cancer Foundation.
Professor Crispian Scully CBE receiving the Most Outstanding Achievements in Dentistry award
Links:
Outstanding Achievement Award for Professor Scully CBE - The Dental Web
12 May 2009
Dr Francesco D’Aiuto is awarded the Anthony Rizzo Young Investigator Award
The UCL Eastman Dental Institute would like to congratulate Dr Francesco D’Aiuto of the Periodontology Unit on his recent success of being the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Anthony Rizzo Young Investigator Award. The award was announced at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) 87th General Session & Exhibition on April 4, 2009, in Miami, Florida, USA.
Dr. D’Aiuto's research activities are concentrated in the area of periodontal medicine, including the association between periodontitis and systemic chronic diseases like cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. He has also been studying mechanisms of systemic inflammation in relation to periodontitis and its treatment with vascular biology.
The Periodontal Research group of the IADR makes this annual award in recognition of the contribution to Periodontal Research by Dr Anthony Rizzo. The award recognizes outstanding research by early career investigators in the field of periodontology. A monetary prize of $500 is also given.
Professor William Giannobile, Past President of the IADR Periodontology Research Group, presents the Anthony Rizzo Young Investigator Award to Dr Francesco D'Aiuto
11 May 2009
Eastman host the British Society for Disability and Oral Health annual conference
The Eastman recently hosted the annual conference of the British Society for Disability and Oral Health. This conference attracted 170 specialists, General Dental Practitioners and DCPs from all parts of the UK and Ireland. The President, Dr Navdeep Kumar (Consultant in Special Care Dentistry in Eastman Dental Hospital) commented “this is possibly the largest attendance at any meeting in this specialty in recent years, reflecting the demands of clinical staff for information concerning the ever increasing numbers of persons with special needs”.
The Eastman Dental Institute provides programmes that will lead to Certificate, Diploma or MSc in Special Care Dentistry. For more information see the Special Care / Special Needs Dentisty pages of the Eastman Online Prosepctus.
Professors Scully and Porter contribute to Scott-Brown's Otorhinolaryngology
Professor Crispian Scully CBE and Professor Stephen Porter have contributed chapters to the award winning textbook and CD-ROM of Scott-Brown's Otorhinolaryngology.
This text is used the world over as the definitive reference for ENT and Head and Neck Surgery specialists and trainees ENT surgeons, providing detailed, reliable and authoritative information on all aspects of ear, nose and throat disease and treatment.
The majority of the chapters are evidence-based and each contains useful features including key points, best clinical practice guidelines, details of the search strategies used to prepare the material, and suggestions for future research.
The print edition is accompanied by a fully searchable electronic edition, containing the same content as the print edition, with references linked to Medline.
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Professors Crispian Scully and Raman Bedi contribute a chapter to Manson's Tropical Diseases
Professors Crispian Scully and Raman Bedi have contributed a chapter to the new edition of Manson's Tropical Diseases*. The book was first published in 1898. It is now in its twenty second edition and comprises 89 chapters. It is published by Saunders Elsevier and edited by Professors Gordon Cook and Alimuddin Zumla of the UCL Medical School.
Professors Scully and Bedi’s chapter is based on their experiences working in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, and patients referred to London from many countries. *ISBN: 978-1-4160-4470-3
Dr Mark Lewis awarded £140,000 charitable donation for research into 3D models for the study of ameloblastoma
The research group led by Mark Lewis has been awarded a grant to appoint a fully-funded PhD student within the Division of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. The funding is from a charitable donation through the UCL Development Office with an additional UK Government uplift; the donor approached a number of academic centres for proposals based on their research interests eventually awarding the project to the Eastman. The project led by PI Mark Lewis along with Vehid Salih, Stefano Fedele and Stephen Porter is to model the pathogenesis of ameloblastoma (AM), the most common odontogenic (tooth development) tumour. The intention is for the appointee to use state of the art rapid tissue fabrication techniques to create 3D tissue engineered flat bone that is analogous to that in the human jaw. Ameloblastoma cells would be introduced to this model to act as a test-bed for various therapeutic molecules. 3D in vitro models offer the best means of studying the mechanisms by which AM cells invade surrounding bone as they are more sophisticated than simple models of cell cultures, but less expensive and complicated than the use of animals. The model could also help study the effects of suitable anti-cancer drugs.
Dr Mark Lewis and Miss Rishma Shah provide a chapter for major new Tissue Engineering textbook
Springer have just published a major new textbook, Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine* to which the UCL skeletal muscle tissue engineering team based at the Eastman have contributed a chapter entitled “Muscle Tissue Engineering”. The other authors are Vivek Mudera and Umber Cheema from the UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science. *ISBN: 978-3-540-77754-0
25 March 2009
Professor Jonathan Knowles selected as Visiting Professor under the Korean Government’s World Class Universities scheme
Professor Jonathan Knowles has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at Dankook University in South Korea. He was selected for the position as part of the Korean Government’s "World Class Universities" programme. This represents the culmination of a long standing collaboration with Professor Hae-Won Kim at Dankook University, which started when Professor Kim joined the UCL Eastman Dental Institute working for 12 months on a Royal Society-funded scholarship.
Through this scheme this collaborative work has attracted £8 million of funding over 5 years to develop new nanomaterials for tissue engineering by financing laboratories and up to 6 PhD students per year. To date, the collaboration has resulted in a significant number of research papers including publication in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
The Korean Government has promised a total of $825 million of investment to Korean Universities to help them reach world class status and boost their position in the university world rankings. This is to support a national programme to attract world class academics to collaborate with, or take up positions at, Korean Universities.
2 March 2009
Professor Brian Henderson awarded £240,000 grant funding from the British Heart Foundation
Professor Brian Henderson has received £240,000 (Fec equivalent £432,000) from the British Heart Foundation for a study entitled: Circulating Cell Stress Proteins, Lymphocyte Function, and Cardiovascular Disease. This application is with Professor Andrew Steptoe, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL and Dr Steve Thompson, Department of Immunology, King’s College London and is to study the relationship between circulating levels of the cell stress protein, heat shock protein (Hsp)60, and leukocyte function in participants in the Whitehall Study - a prospective study of cardiovascular risk factors. This is part of ongoing studies at the Eastman to identify the pathological roles of bacterial and human cell stress proteins.
2 March 2009
EDI academics contribute to the recently published book Cellular Response to Biomaterials
Cellular Response to Biomaterials, published in February 2009, includes chapter contributions from several clinical and academic members of the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering division at EDI, namely Dr. Ensanya Abou Neel, Prof. JC Knowles, Dr. Mark Lewis, Dr. Vehid Salih & Ms. Rishma Shah. The book, published by Woodhead and edited by Dr Lucy Di Silvio, draws together contributions from colleagues of international standing in their field and is essential reading for researchers and interested parties in the field of medical devices in industry and academia.
13 February 2009
Professor Michael Wilson and Dr Derren Ready consult on the making of Co-Existence, a new commission for the Wellcome Trust
Professor Michael Wilson, Professor of Microbiology at the UCL Eastman
Dental Institute and Dr Derren Ready, Clinical Scientist, UCLH NHS
Foundation Trust consulted on the latest art installation to adorn
the Wellcome Trust headquarters in the Euston Road in London. The
new work by German-born product designer Julia Lohmann is providing
bold viewing for passers-by.
Entitled 'Co-existence', it is the latest commission for the Wellcome Trust's window display and consists of 9000 petri dishes brightly illuminated with colours and designs that form the shape of two naked women lying head-to-head.
Whilst working on the concept, Julia Lohmann consulted Professor Wilson, whose recent book 'Bacteriology of Humans: An ecological perspective' describes the bacterial communities that live on the body. Information from the book was used to identify those bacterial species that inhabit particular regions of the body. Dr Ready grew and photographed colonies of the various bacteria used in the display - a total of 750 images were produced.
Professor Wilson commented: "Only one in ten of the cells comprising a human being is mammalian - the rest are microbes and multicellular organisms. This symbiotic association between mammalian cells and microbes forms the stable, living structure which we think of as the human body. So, in reality, the human body is not only a beautifully integrated assembly of organ systems, it is also a complex ecosystem that provides a variety of environments - each of which is populated by a distinct microbial community. A symbiotic existence is probably the most common form of life on this planet and we humans are popular hosts. I'm delighted that Julia has used this concept as an inspiration for her work."
Professor Wilson and Dr Ready attended the official opening reception held on Monday 9th February. For those wanting to explore more fully the science behind the art-work, copies of Professor Wilson's book were on sale during the event.
For more information about the work visit:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2009/WTX053248.htm
Links:
Julia Lohmann
www.julialohmann.co.uk
The Wellcome Trust
www.wellcome.ac.uk
Wellcome Collection
www.wellcomecollection.org
14 January 2009
UCL Eastman research receives support from the EPSRC-funded Industrial Doctoral Training Centre in Molecular Modelling & Materials Science at UCL
Dr Peter Brett and Professor Nikos Donos were part of an inter-departmental UCL bid which has been awarded continued EPSRC-funding for the Industrial Doctoral Training Centre in Molecular Modelling & Materials Science based at UCL. The funding for the Centre totals £6M and will enable 50 graduates to undertake DEng programmes at UCL over the next 5 years. The project submitted by Dr Peter Brett (PI) and Professor Nikos Donos of UCL Eastman entitled “The enrichment of adult stem cell populations for osteogenic capacity” has secured commercial sponsorship of 30K for the Centre and will attract one PhD studentship under the scheme. Opportunities exist for UCL Eastman to benefit from further studentships under this exciting scheme. The bid was coordinated Prof N de Leeuw in the UCL Department of Chemistry. The Industrial Doctoral Training Centre in Molecular Modelling & Materials Science is one of seven Centres based at UCL.
Links:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0812/08120501/
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/Centres/NewCentres.htm
5 January 2009
EDI celebrates an excellent outcome in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
The Results of the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) covering the period 2001-2007 have just been published. 14 dental schools in the UK submitted a return. When RAE quality and volume measures are combined in what the Times Higher Education Supplement has called the “research power” score1, UCL Eastman Dental Institute was ranked the 2nd best performing return submitted in Dentistry.
The RAE results show that 95% of the Eastman’s research is of an international standard which has made or is likely to make a significant contribution to knowledge, theory, practice or policy; 60% of this is classed as internationally excellent making a highly significant contribution while 15% is world leading.
The outcome is particularly pleasing as we submitted 42.40 FTE staff representing over 90% of all eligible academic staff - a submission percentage that compares highly favourably with other institutes and that truly reflects the breadth of excellence of all our staff.
UCL Eastman ranked 3rd in terms of the number of world leading 4* researchers returned, 2nd in terms of the number of highly performing 4* and 3* researchers returned and 2nd in terms of the number of researchers doing work recognized as at the international standard.
The Eastman’s research will continue to prosper as we strengthen multi-disciplinary collaborations within the UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences and capitalize on translational research outcomes bringing real benefits for the oral health of the nation.
Commenting on the performance of the Schools as a whole Professor Ed Byrne said “The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) are now published. The results confirm the School of Life & Medical Sciences' (SLMS) standing as the UK's main research 'power house' in biomedicine and life sciences. Every member of the School, academic, technical, administrative, should feel proud of this achievement. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0812/08121804
The Higher Education Funding Council for England commented “the results confirm the dominant position that universities and colleges in the United Kingdom hold in international research”; John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said: "The latest RAE reinforces the UK's position as a world leader in research and I congratulate our universities and colleges for achieving such outstanding results.
1 Times Higher Education Supplement Research Power Score is calculated by multiplying average research scores by the volume of staff submitted.
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