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Proud to see our MD Anderson-UTH Grad PhD student @SungaGema doing an incredible job presenting her work at the National Cancer Institute @NIDCR Immuno-Oncology Translational Network meeting at NIH discussing the tumor immune microenvironment in preclinical models of oral cancer! #weareutsd

Excited to celebrate the upcoming birth of Nourhan's baby boy. Looking forward to welcoming another Young Lab future scientist!I 🧪🔬🐣

JUST TWO WEEKS OUT!! The exciting return of the Star of the South is almost here. Join your peers, July 26-27: tinyurl.com/Register2024St… #starofthesouthdentalmeeting #greaterhoustondentalsociety #downtownhouston

Just accepted - "Artificial Intelligence Applications in Oral Cancer and Oral Dysplasia" with C. Viet DDS, MD, PhD, FACS et al. in Tissue Eng Part A. Very excited to see how machine learning will enhance our ability to predict the behavior of oral dysplasia and cancer! tinyurl.com/yud4hrmc

There's lots of excitement surrounding immunotherapy to treat oral cancer and lesions at risk of becoming cancer (OPMDs). We discuss the limitations of systemic delivery and how localized, intratumoral approaches w/ biomaterials can address these: tinyurl.com/y9p8khut

Here with the Young Lab at UTHealth at the Allison Institute Symposium hearing the latest and greatest on “Immunotherapy in Space and Time” at TMC3. Incredible roster of presentations, just a block away from UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry! Speaks to the incredible collaborative environment we have here!

Collaboration is central to what we do UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry. Very excited to be working with Chun-Teh Lee (Perio), Omid Veiseh (Rice BioE), and @jeffrey_j_tabor (Rice BioSciences) on biomaterial-enhanced living cytokine factories for periodontal dz and oral cancer. tinyurl.com/yx29edbk

Another great Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer meeting done and dusted. Great line up of speakers, learned a lot as usual, and enjoyed seeing Andrea Hernandez Molina and @SungaGema present their work at the poster sessions. Well done!

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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…

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

Bone regeneration in compromised wounds is tough! We continue our collaboration with Paulo G. Coelho Lukasz Witek, PhD and Kurt Kasper, developing a challenging preclinical model of ORN to test bone grafting strategies. tinyurl.com/jxr9j7sc

Congratulations to Andrea Hernandez Molina 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

Congrats to Caitlynn Barrows for successfully defending her PhD this week at MD Anderson-UTH Grad. Co-mentored by Simon Young and Cindy Farach-Carson, she's the 1st PhD student to graduate from Young Lab at UTHealth. We're so proud of her for her amazing work with human salivary gland stem/progenitor cells.