dr. Olja Grgic-Chavez
On 5th October 2022, Olja Grgic-Chavez successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Understanding determinants of pediatric developmental health”. Congratulations dr. Olja Grgic-Chavez!
PER-IADR 2022 Presentations
From September 15th – September 17th, our own Vid Prijatelj held an oral presentation titled “Commnon genetic background of hypodontia and third molar agenesis” at the 2022 PER-IADR Oral Health Research Congress in Marseille, France. Within he discussed how Recall-by-genotype, a special methodology in association studies based on genetic information, was applied to establish the …
Caries Preventive Interventions and Oral Health Inequalities: A Scoping Review
Our very own Agatha van Meijeren-van Lunteren had her review article published at the JDR Clinical & Translational Research. Within she perused multiple public databases to establish which early-life interventions help caries prevention. Give it a read! Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23800844221109116 (https://doi.org/10.1177/23800844221109116) Congratulations Agatha!
Welcome Gisselle
Gisselle Carbajal joined us this May to start her PhD. She is a dentist and a specialist in Orthodontics. Additionally, she has a MSc in Dental Public Health. Her PhD project aims to investigate dental caries trajectories along the life-course from childhood to young adulthood, and the influence of biological, behavioural, psychological, social and environmental …
dr. Roshchupkin Recipient of the NWO VENI Grant
Explainable Artificial Intelligence to unravel genetic architecture of complex traits. In his words: “While we have learned that most diseases have a genetic component, we are still far away from understanding the underlying processes. Using Artificial Intelligence, I will investigate the complex relationship between DNA mutations and human health. This will be the basis for …
Paper about bias mitigation in machine learning was accepted by MICCAI
The paper entitled Projection-wise Disentangling for Fair and Interpretable Representation Learning: Application to 3D Facial Shape Analysis was accepted by International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). MICCAI is the most influential academic conference in the field of medical image analysis. In MICCAI 2021, there were over 2550 attendees, and 533 …
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IADR 2021 Presentations
Agatha van Luteren-van Meijer and Vid Prijatelj both presented their research titled “Adherence to the Dutch Dietary Guidelines and Dental Caries Among Teenagers” and “Mandibular Cortical Width is Associated With Teenage Bone Mineral Density“, respectively, at the 2021 IADR/AADR/CADR General Session. Their respective presentation IDs were 1669 and 1565. Congratulations to both!
Welcome Francien
Francien Veenman works on the oral microbiome as risk factor for dental caries. The primary aim of this project is to understand how the oral microbiome influences oral health and the caries disease process in children. Dental plaque samples that were collected in the Generation R Study will be analyzed. Francien holds a Master in …