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Impressions from London at the
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96th General Session meeting of
the International Association for
Dental Research (IADR)
The International Association for Dental Research Ambassadors in order to facilitate the primary
(IADR) General Session was held in conjunction aim of the organization, namely to encourage
with the Pan European Regional (PRE) Congress high-quality Oral Health Research and to facilitate
on July 25-28, 2018 in London, England. The networking across Europe. The Ambassadors
congress was a major meeting, encouraging the Group also takes an active part in organizing the
presentation and discussion of novel findings Young CED-IADR Symposia at the upcoming
and clinical approaches among more than 5000 CED/PER-IADR meetings. Each time the Symposia
scientists and researchers coming from almost 90 address a specific topic of frontier research and
countries. The very high amount of data presented are totally organized, chaired and have speakers
included the most recent research findings, who are less than 35 years old, with a brilliant
developments and trends in all the sub-disciplines experience in research. Their aim is to promote
of dentistry. In fact, the programme included more young researchers and to encourage networking
than 2200 poster and 780 oral presentations, 92 especially among people at the beginning of their
symposia, several lunches & learning, hands-on research career. In particular, at the next CED-IADR
workshops and two Distinguished Lecture Series meeting, the Young Symposium title will be: “New
plenary sessions. Condensing the whole meeting insights on peri-implantitis”.
in just four days was a major challenge. This could The next European meetings of the Association
be accomplished by conducting several sessions are scheduled to take place as CED-IADR, meeting
at the same time, thanks to the London Excel of the Continental European Division in Madrid,
congress venue that provided enough room for all Spain, September 19-21, 2019 and as PER-IADR,
the events. meeting of the Pan-European Region in Marseille,
The meeting was a huge opportunity especially France, September 10-12, 2020.
for young researchers to present their findings For any information, please refer to the website
at the beginning of their careers, with the of the organization: https://ced-iadr.eu/ and the
organization providing many possibilities to secretariat email: ced.iadr@uzleuven.be.
support them, especially at the European level,
by means of travel grants, company and Group-
sponsored competitions covering different topics, Andrei C. Ionescu
and the Robert Frank awards for both clinical and DDS, PhD, Post-doc fellow and tutor
basic science. Winners of the award were selected Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental
to represent each Division at the upcoming Sciences
General Session meeting, which will be held in Institute of Microbiology
Vancouver, BC, in June 19-22, 2019. Several dinner IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute
events, mainly organized by the different Groups, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Universities and Companies, but also a dinner
reception specifically dedicated to the first-time
attendees, were excellent occasions for further
networking and getting in touch with each other.
The Continental European Division (CED) DOI: 10.25241/stomaeduj.2018.5(3).news.1
also organized a meeting of the CED-IADR
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