Simon Young

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!

@uthealthhoupres @UTSDHouston @kibbemr Thank you @kibbemr for a great visit to @UTSDHouston and proud of the students, faculty, and staff who showcased the strength of our research and training programs!

Visited @UTSDHouston and met incredible students, trainees, faculty, and staff. Their dedication to advancing dental science and practice reflects their school’s unmistakable “spirit of service”.

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

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)!

Wanted to share a reflection on my mentor, Dr. Mark Wong, in the latest issue of #AAOMSToday. Forever grateful for his guidance, wisdom, and dedication to advancing our profession. Thank you, Dr. Wong. #MentorshipMatters #OMFS @aaoms #weareutsd @UTSDHouston

Big gracias to our speakers, engaged audience (~50 strong) and @IADR & @IADR_OMS for enabling this cross-disciplinary dialogue on how to push the frontiers of oral & craniofacial regeneration—onward to clinical impact! #TeamScience

Dr. Conrado Aparicio (UPC) closed the session with bioinspired, antimicrobial biomineralized materials that both spark mineralization and suppress infection—game-changers for long-term implant success. #Biomimetics #Antimicrobial

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! 🇪🇸

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

Bone regeneration in compromised wounds is tough! We continue our collaboration with @PauloGCoelho1 @LukaszWitekPhD and Kurt Kasper, developing a challenging preclinical model of ORN to test bone grafting strategies. tinyurl.com/jxr9j7sc

@MDA_UTHGrad It’s really fulfilling to see PhD students “grow up” over the years and able to pass along their knowledge and experience to a new generation of budding scientists. Great job @andreasteminist!

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

And now for something a little different: Dong Lab has designed miniature wireless pumps and valves for on-demand liquid delivery in dental implants. Check it out in Advanced Healthcare Materials: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

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