Sunita Ho discussed about “Mastication-Induced TRPV4/PIEZO1 Mechanosensory Activation and Mitochondrial Metabolism Safeguards PDL Integrity” at the 2023 AADOCR on March 15.

To be continued - sweet sadness parting onto different pastures - Misun Kang, our local microspectroscopist. See you in Berkeley, Misun. Look forward to more discussions in the future - till then, be well! The Ho lab!

October 22, 2022 - Yushi heading home away from home after being in the US for more than 6 years. We look forward to seeing him in the future - somewhere on this small planet/world. Congratulations, Yushi on your next adventure.

Congratulations to Nam Nguyen on his recent win of the 2022 Growth and Development Research Award in association with Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research and Wiley.

Orthodontics & Craniofacial Research - Wiley Online Library

Congratulations to Nam Nguyen on winning the IADR Growth and Development Research Award on his project titled “Human Craniofacial Bone Quality Post-orthodontic Treatment is Age- and Anatomy-specific”.

  Congratulationsto Nam Nguyen on winning the IADR Growth and Development Research Award on his project titled “Human Craniofacial Bone Quality Post-orthodontic Treatment is Age- and Anatomy-specific”.

Congratulations to Nam Nguyen (dental student), a member of our team in Biomechanics is selected as a finalist in the Growth and Development Research Award competition by Orthodontics Research Group of IADR!

Nam Nguyen (2nd year dental student), a member of our team in Biomechanics is selected as a finalist in the Growth and Development Research Award competition by Orthodontics Research Group of IADR to be held virtually during the 2022 IADR/APR General Session, June 2022.

The manuscript "Insights into Pulp Biomineralization in Human Teeth" has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Dental Medicine.

Natalya Foreman, one of our research interns in the Program of Biomineralization Studies (PiBiomS) will be attending University of Arizona – Phoenix for medical school.

Natalya Foreman, one of our research interns in the Program of Biomineralization Studies (PiBiomS) will be attending University of Arizona – Phoenix for medical school – we wish her all the best on this wonderful journey of becoming into an effective care-giver!

Congratulations to Daniel Kim - admitted into Periodontics program on Stony Brook University!

Congratulations to the team lead by Hennefarth and Ustriyana et al., on their effort in identifying the phenotypic resemblance of mineralized Peyronie’s plaque to bone!

This work is on available in Acta Biomaterilia at https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1742-7061(21)00773-X