The previous post alluded to travelling up North – Professor Nick can update you:
The Dentsply/BDA held its 33rd annual Student Clinician Awards Dinner in Edinburgh on 5 February 2010.
Proceedings began at 7pm with a drinks reception and black tie gala at the Balmoral Hotel on Princes Street and the winner was announced after the dinner. The School is proud to announce that Lisa Durning in the fourth year of the BDS programme won 1st prize.
Professor Nick Grey, Professor of Dental Education/Faculty Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning at Manchester Dental School, said: “This year’s competition once again highlighted the very high calibre of the undergraduates the UK and Ireland have in their dental schools. Congratulations go to all of the entrants, who have excelled at their own institutions to earn the right to compete in the final, and particularly to our winner, Lisa Durning. Her presentation showed real evidence of prowess in research, and her success will hopefully help nurture our researchers of the future.
The title of her presentation, was: “Analysis of a novel embryonic stem cell line exhibiting de novo promoter methylation of the metastasis suppressor E-cadherin”.
As proud winner, Lisa will be invited to present her project on a non-competitive basis at the American Dental Association from 7 to 10 October 2010, during an all expenses paid trip to Orlando, Florida as an honoured guest of Dentsply International.
The picture below shows Lisa with the adjudicators (picture courtesy of the BDA). A special School thanks goes to our very own Dr Chris Ward who supervised the project.
Friday the 5th February is an important in the diary for Student Dentists across the U.K.
Every year, the British Dental Association and Dentsply host a competition for the best project presented by the student fraternity. This is always a glitzy bash and each dental School is allowed one entry. The proud winner for Manchester for the 2010 round is Lisa Durning. Lisa has worked with Dr Chris Ward on exciting research relating to stem cells – far too complicated for “thefiller” to understand.
The lucky winner gets announced after a convivial evening meal and Professors Devlin and Grey will cheering Lisa on.
Photos of the night will soon be posted…….
Good luck Lisa – go girl!
2010 has been the coldest start to a New Year that the filler can remember.
Closed Schools, quiet clinics and absence of grit seems to have graced the news headlines.
Here are some shots of PGs house, Village and scenic walks…..
Roll on the thaw….
A Happy New Year to all.
It has been a wickedly cold break but the first day back in 2010 saw Professor Iain Campbell Mackie take over the reins of Head of School from Professor Nick Grey.
The School wishes him well in his new role.
After a Summer of hectic activity, the Ground Floor Clinic chairs are now up and running. Forty-five, brand new chairs have been installed and their arrival was noted by attendees of the Staff-Student liaison Committee:
The gang enjoyed some twiglets and nuts before getting down to the business of making student life better.
The recent installation of chairs continues a run of a multi-million pound refurbishment in the School: new postgraduate suite, new clinical skills, new dental laboratories and now new chairs.
Roll on Manchester!!!
