Congratulations to Maria Kuzynski (Dobrawa lab), who won the Basic Science 1st Place in the 27th Annual DENTSPLY/Caulk Student Research Group Competition held during the International Association for Dental Research Annual Meeting in March 2013 in Seattle. Maria's presentation title was: 3Trps1 is Required for Mineralization of Odontoblastic Cells in vitro2.

CMDB students place at 2013 UAB Gradute Student Research Days! Way to go! Stephanie Easter, 1st Place, Session 6 - Biomedical and Life Sciences; and Lauren Hablitz, 3rd Place, Session 7 - Biomedical Life Sciences.

The following CMDB students have been admitted to candidacy -- CONGRATULATIONS! Stephanie Easter, Hieu Hoang, Amanda DeBrot, Matthew Dodson, Lauren Hablitz, Wes Lewis, Samir Rana, Bryan Roessler, Jessica Winek, John Wright, and Hao Yu.