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Musical success for dental student
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arch 2012 saw King’s student group All the King’s Men win the Voice Festival UK a cappella finals, resulting in an invitation to compete in the New York finals against all the top collegiate USA a cappella groups in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. ‘We were placed third, a phenomenal achievement for an all-male British group!’ says Tomas Lavery, the only dental student in the group. The group, started by freshers in 2009, is now in its second generation of singers. They have enjoyed two sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and tours across the USA, Hong Kong and Singapore.
BSc project in The Lancet
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n March, Dena Ettehad, then a fourth-year student at the Dental Institute, had her intercalated BSc research project, a paper titled ‘Treatment outcomes for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and metaanalysis’, published in the medical journal The Lancet.
Ettehad conducted her research, which aimed to assess evidence for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children, as part of her intercalated BSc in Global Health at Imperial College London from 2010-11. At the end of year three of the BDS programme, dental students
have the opportunity to take an intercalated BSc degree, which allows them to pursue the subject of their choice in greater depth. For additional information and details of the intercalated degree at the Dental Institute, please contact Director of Education Professor Mark Woolford at mark.woolford@kcl.ac.uk
Dental students scoop prestigious scientific prizes Class of 2012
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t the sixth meeting of the Pan-European Division of the International Association for Dental Research (CED-IADR) in October, two Dental Institute undergraduates won first and second prize at the CED-IADR Junior Robert Frank Award Competition. The Robert Frank Award is a prestigious scientific prize based on an oral presentation competition, limited to candidates who have undertaken research as an enrolled undergraduate student. The winning students, Ashvin Babbar and Sadhvik Vijay, carried out research projects as part of their intercalated BSc in Regenerative Medicine within the Biomaterials, Biomimetics and Biophotonics Research Group. Babbar presented a paper entitled ‘Biomimetic Restorative Materials for Soft-Tissue Regeneration
Ashvin Babbar has been nominated to attend this year’s IADR General Session and Exhibition in Seattle
in Dentistry’. He has now been nominated to participate in this year’s IADR/Unilever Hatton Awards Competition at the IADR General Session and Exhibition in Seattle, USA. Unilever Oral Care will support his participation at the competition by providing registration, airfare and accommodation. Vijay won second prize and presented his work on ‘Effects induced by a ternary photoinitiator system on the polymerisation of HEMA-containing or HEMA-free etch-and-rinse dental adhesives’. The project led to peer-reviewed publication in the European Polymer Journal in August. The Robert Frank Award is provided in honour of Dr Robert Frank, former President of the IADR and CED-IADR, and one of the founders of CED-IADR.
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long with 169 students graduating with a BDS degree, a number of postgraduate students were awarded PhDs, master’s degrees and the Associateship of King’s College London (AKC) at a ceremony in Southwark Cathedral in July. The Jelf Medal was presented to Laurent Holmes and the Newland Pedley Scholarship was awarded to Fahad Jamil. The Saunders Prize went to Meghan McAleese and the Robert Woodhouse Prize was awarded to Corinne Clemens. Jessica Meguire and Noman Athwal were joint winners of the A M Clover Prize. The prizes, which are awarded annually, are based on academic and clinical performance. January 2013 | InDent | 11