Alexandria, VA – The American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR) has announced the recipients of the 2025 AADOCR Student Research Day Award. The recipients were recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the 54th Annual Meeting of the AADOCR, which was held in conjunction with the 49th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, on March 12-15, 2025 in New York, NY.
The recipients are:
- Yiwen Chen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Tamilyn Chu, Boston University, MA
- Alan Gorny, University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Sarah Heise, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
- Lauren Kress, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- George Kokkinos, Stony Brook University, NY
- Kimia Imani, University of Washington, Seattle
- Nursima Lacin, University of Pittsburgh, PA
- Christian McSweeny, A.T. Still University, Mesa, AZ
- Markus Mosley, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
- Justin Nguyen, Roseman University, South Jordan, UT
- Kyungjoon Park, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Naomi Riley, Indiana University, Indianapolis
- Kathryn Roeder, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
- Jordan Sahawneh, Touro College and University System, New York, NY
- Talia Thambyrajah, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Aaron Toler, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
- Kavya Uddaraju, University of Connecticut, Farmington
- Anny Yang, University of California San Francisco
- Nicholas Yuhas, Southern Illinois University, Alton
The AADOCR Student Research Day Award is awarded to the best presentation at the university research day competition. Universities that are AADOCR Institutional Section members are eligible to apply. It consists of prepaid meeting registration and a monetary prize of $500 to assist in travel to the next AADOCR Annual Meeting or IADR/AADOCR General Session for a student who has an abstract accepted to present at the meeting.
About AADOCR
The American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to drive dental, oral, and craniofacial research to advance health and well-being. AADOCR represents the individual scientists, clinician-scientists, dental professionals, and students based in academic, government, non-profit, and private-sector institutions who share our mission. AADOCR is the largest division of the International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research. Learn more at www.aadocr.org.
