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Advancing Oral Health in the UK

BSDR success in Hatton Awards at the Miami IADR 2009

The BSDR continued its strong performances in the IADR Hatton Awards at the 87th General session in Miami, Florida. Suttipalin Suwannakul a PhD student in oral and maxillofacial pathology  was runner-up in the prestigious Unilever Senior Hatton (Basic Science category) competition for her work entitled 'Subtypes of Porphyromonas gingivalis that differ in epithelial cell invasion'.

The project was supervised by Ian Douglas, Graham Stafford and Simon Whawell at the School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield.

Suttipalin (fifth from right) is pictured with other prize winners, out going IADR President, Bob ten Cate (far right),  and IADR Executive Director, Chris Fox (second from right) at the opening ceremony of this year's meeting.

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