ORCA-Young Investigator's Award
In 2011, N. Charadram, of Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Sydney, Australia, won the award for her poster on ‘Influence of Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2) on Caries-Odontoblast Reaction and Formation of Reactionary Dentine’ (coauthors N. Hunter, M. Swain).
About the Award
The Young Investigator's Award, which was inaugurated in 2007, is intended to encourage young researchers and comprises a certificate and payment of the registration fee for a future ORCA Congress. Entrants for the Young Investigator’s Award should be presenting a poster at the ORCA Congress 2012 and be aged 35 or under on 30 June 2012. Presenters can enter the competition by ticking a box when submitting their abstract via the online submission system.
Past Winners2010 Nadine Schlueter, Dental Clinic, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
2009 Maria Mantzourani, King’s College Dental Institute, London, UK
2008 Peter Tschoppe, The School of Dental Medicine, Charité Centrum 3, Berlin, Germany
2007 Nathan Cochrane, University of Melbourne, Australia