Investment in dentistry

The Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh was the venue for the ceremony. The gala event was the culmination of a competition that saw entries from 15 UK and Irish dental schools being presented to a panel of experts. This year Prof Nairn Wilson, dean of the Dental Institute at King’s; Prof Robbie McConnell of Cork University Dental School and Hospital; and Susan Hooper of the University of Bristol’s Dental School performed the task of adjudication. The standard of entrants continued to impress the panel, making their decision a challenging one.

The winning entry came from Lisa Durning from Manchester Dental School. Her research, entitled ‘Analysis of a novel embryonic stem cell line exhibiting de novo promoter methylation of the metastasis suppressor E-cadherin’ has won her an all-expenses paid trip to Orlando, Florida, to attend the American Dental Association’s Annual Conference. She also becomes a member of SCADA, an international association of student clinicians.