Thanks to Dr. Sarah Wong for reviewing the excellent cancer biomarker work being done in C. Viet DDS, MD, PhD, FACS lab at LLU and our Young Lab at UTHealth biomaterials work in cancer immunotherapy at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry. Amazing figures drawn by Dr. Victoria Manon UT OMS Houston. shorturl.at/hjOY1

Wonderful symposium "Host and Head-Neck Cancer Interactions" organized by lADR OMS group w speakers John B. Sunwoo, M.D. (Stanford), Leo Lei, DDS, PhD (MDACC) & Jennifer R Wang, MD PhD (MDACC). Here with IADR OMS group officers Drs. Lauren Hum, Justine Moe MD DDS, Simon Young and Chi Viet

The IADR OMS Group is proud to co-sponsor the symposium “Women in Surgery and Science: Strategies to Promote Gender Equality” with an amazing speaker panel: Cindy Farach-Carson, Dr. Lauren Hum, Justine Moe MD DDS, C. Viet DDS, MD, PhD, FACS, Dr. Jacqueline Hecht, Dr. Janice Lee, Dr. Anissa Brown, Dr. Anh Le.

Latest publication from the lab of C. Viet DDS, MD, PhD, FACS in collaboration with Young Lab at UTHealth using controlled release STING agonist as immunotherapy to treat both oral cancer progression and pain. With single cell RNASeq they define the immune cells responsible. mdpi.com/2227-9059/12/4…

OMS Research Collaborative starting a new Clinical Innovation Series. Inaugural topic: maxillofacial imaging and AI. Series of short talks given by a great set of speakers, Q&A in-between + breakout rooms for each speaker at the end for you to go in-depth: tinyurl.com/4et8fu78

Happening tomorrow, can't wait! us02web.zoom.us/j/89906220951?…

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

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

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

Thank you Anastasios Maniakas, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Andy Sikora, Jeff Myers, Leo Lei, DDS, PhD & the entire MD Anderson Cancer Center Head and Neck team for the kind invitation to share our work & for your warm hospitality. I leave Houston inspired by your excellence, leadership & dedication. Earle A. Chiles Research Institute. Providence

Congrats Young Lab at UTHealth trainees for showcasing their work! Rice University undergrads Arman Hassan and Riya Pagilla discussed polarizing myeloid cells w/ STING agonists and new MDP hydrogels and MD Anderson-UTH Grad student Gema Sunga won 1st place at ACTS for her OSCC TME project! 💪

Amazing results. Will change standard of care. Congratulations to Ravi Uppaluri (Ravi Uppaluri, MDPhD⁩), Doug Adkins, and team! ⁦WashUMedENT⁩ ⁦WashU Medicine⁩ ⁦AHNS⁩

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

An infographic presented by the AHNS Basic and Translational Science Service The promise and uncertainties of applying the new neoadjuvant anti-PD1 standard created by KEYNOTE-689 #AHNS #neoadjuvant #immunotherapy #HNSCC

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.

Thrilled to co-chair our #IADR2025 symposium “Bioengineering Advances in Craniomaxillofacial Reconstruction” with Lukasz Witek, PhD here in beautiful Barcelona. Huge thanks to IADR Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Group, #DentalMaterials & IADR_MTG groups and everyone who packed the room! 🇪🇸

Using scRNAseq, Lodi et al. created a pan-cancer single-cell atlas from 160 patients across 9 cancer types, and identified 70 shared cell subtypes bit.ly/4nVswSj

CRATERs have been identified as sites of increased tumor antigen presentation where T cells can recognize and kill tumor cells bit.ly/3J8g42v  Aya Ludin  Dr. Len Zon HSCRB

Proud of our team for their outstanding posters and presentations on strategies for localized immunotherapy in HNSCC!👏 Andrea Hernandez Molina, Alejandra Cobos Perez, Riya Pagilla, Joyce Jiang, Arman Hassan. Special congratulations to Andrea for Best Abstract Award (Postgrad category)!

Excited to join the new NIH TMD CREATE project - one of the largest studies ever on jaw pain & TMD! With Drs. Mark Wong and Craig Pearl, UT OMS Houston will contribute to this national effort to transform TMD care. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4b2zarax #WeareUTSD