IADR Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Group

Strong week for our trainees! Presentations at the @UTHealthHouston Pediatric Research Center & @UTSDHouston Center for Craniofacial Research Retreat, with several lab members earning awards. Also great to support Arman Hassan at @RiceUniversity NSURS this weekend. Go team!

Two weeks out! The OMS Research Collaborative is back with a rapid-fire MRONJ session featuring new data, sharp 5-min research pitches, and global experts. Excited for this one.

Excited to join the new @NIH TMD CREATE project - one of the largest studies ever on jaw pain & TMD! With Drs. Mark Wong and Craig Pearl, @UTOMShouston will contribute to this national effort to transform TMD care. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4b2zarax #WeareUTSD

Using scRNAseq, Lodi et al. created a pan-cancer single-cell atlas from 160 patients across 9 cancer types, and identified 70 shared cell subtypes bit.ly/4nVswSj

CRATERs have been identified as sites of increased tumor antigen presentation where T cells can recognize and kill tumor cells bit.ly/3J8g42v  @aya_ludin  @leonard_zon @HSCRB

Proud of our team for their outstanding posters and presentations on strategies for localized immunotherapy in HNSCC!👏 @andreasteminist, Alejandra Cobos Perez, Riya Pagilla, Joyce Jiang, Arman Hassan. Special congratulations to Andrea for Best Abstract Award (Postgrad category)!

Thrilled to co-chair our #IADR2025 symposium “Bioengineering Advances in Craniomaxillofacial Reconstruction” with @LukaszWitekPhD here in beautiful Barcelona. Huge thanks to @IADR_OMS, #DentalMaterials & @IADR_MTG groups and everyone who packed the room! 🇪🇸

An infographic presented by the AHNS Basic and Translational Science Service The promise and uncertainties of applying the new neoadjuvant anti-PD1 standard created by KEYNOTE-689 #AHNS #neoadjuvant #immunotherapy #HNSCC

Congrats to Caitlynn Barrows for successfully defending her PhD this week at @MDA_UTHGrad. Co-mentored by @siwyoung and @farachca, she's the 1st PhD student to graduate from @younglabUTH. We're so proud of her for her amazing work with human salivary gland stem/progenitor cells.

Congratulations to @andreasteminist for winning an AACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research (MICR) Travel Award to present her work in intratumoral cytokine therapy for head and neck cancer at the @AACR Annual Meeting. Check out her poster on 4/28/25! #AACR25

Amazing results. Will change standard of care. Congratulations to Ravi Uppaluri (@DrUppaluri⁩), Doug Adkins, and team! ⁦@WashUMedENT⁩ ⁦@washumedicine⁩ ⁦@AHNSinfo⁩

Thank you @DrAManiakas, Andy Sikora, Jeff Myers, @LeoLeiDDSPhD & the entire @MDAndersonNews Head and Neck team for the kind invitation to share our work & for your warm hospitality. I leave Houston inspired by your excellence, leadership & dedication. @ChilesResearch. @providence

Congrats @younglabUTH trainees for showcasing their work! @RiceUniversity undergrads Arman Hassan and Riya Pagilla discussed polarizing myeloid cells w/ STING agonists and new MDP hydrogels and @MDA_UTHGrad student Gema Sunga won 1st place at ACTS for her OSCC TME project! 💪

Andrea Hernandez Molina’s research in the Young Laboratory involves treatment for head and neck cancer. Hear more about her research and why she is thankful to work with such amazing scientists in her lab. Andrea is a PhD candidate in the Immunology Program. #WeAreGSBS

Collaboration is central to what we do @UTSDHouston. Very excited to be working with Chun-Teh Lee (Perio), @veiseho (Rice BioE), and @jeffrey_j_tabor (Rice BioSciences) on biomaterial-enhanced living cytokine factories for periodontal dz and oral cancer. tinyurl.com/yx29edbk

There's lots of excitement surrounding immunotherapy to treat oral cancer and lesions at risk of becoming cancer (OPMDs). We discuss the limitations of systemic delivery and how localized, intratumoral approaches w/ biomaterials can address these: tinyurl.com/y9p8khut

Happening tomorrow, can't wait! us02web.zoom.us/j/89906220951?…

OMS Research Collaborative starting a new Clinical Innovation Series. Inaugural topic: maxillofacial imaging and AI. Series of short talks given by a great set of speakers, Q&A in-between + breakout rooms for each speaker at the end for you to go in-depth: tinyurl.com/4et8fu78

Latest publication from the lab of @drchiviet in collaboration with @younglabUTH using controlled release STING agonist as immunotherapy to treat both oral cancer progression and pain. With single cell RNASeq they define the immune cells responsible. mdpi.com/2227-9059/12/4…

The IADR OMS Group is proud to co-sponsor the symposium “Women in Surgery and Science: Strategies to Promote Gender Equality” with an amazing speaker panel: @farachca, Dr. Lauren Hum, @justine_moe, @drchiviet, Dr. Jacqueline Hecht, Dr. Janice Lee, Dr. Anissa Brown, Dr. Anh Le.