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  <content>       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 &amp; 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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