Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine

Karl Kingsley, Katherine Howard, Kieran Caberto Huni, Jacky Cheung, Madeline Sullivan, and William Taylor Robison (all Dental Medicine)  published the study, "Chemotherapeutic Drug Resistance Associated with Differential miRNA Expression of miR-375 and miR-27 among Oral Cancer Cell Lines," in the International Journal of Medical Sciences (…
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Mucosal circadian rhythm pathway genes altered by aging and periodontitis,” which published in the December 6 issue of PLoS ONE. The study examined the expression of circadian rhythm genes in periodontitis, and concluded that variation in disease expression and the underlying molecular mechanisms of…
Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Matthew Hunsaker, Adelle Fuller, and Brandon Richards (all Dental Medicine) recently published their study, "Expression of Exosome-Derived MicroRNAs miR-21 and miR-135 are Differentially Regulated Among Dental Pulp Stem Cells," in the latest issue of Current Research in Medicine. 
Dr. Tanya Al-Talib (Dental Medicine) has been appointed as the Nevada Delegate to the Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists (PCSO). The society, which is the largest constituent organization of the American Association of Orthodontists, focuses on helping its nearly 3,000 members provide the highest level of care. She will also serve on the PCSO…
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Dr. Linh Nguyen (Dental Medicine) co-authored, “Gingival Transcriptomic Patterns of Macrophage Polarization during Initiation, Progression, and Resolution of Periodontitis,” which published December 26, 2022, in Clinical and Experimental Immunology. This investigation hypothesized that altered profiles of gene expression…
Karl Kingsley, Ching Shen, J. Brigham Clawson, and Justin Simpson (all Dental Medicine) recently published their study, "Oral Prevalence of Akkermansia muciniphila Differs Among Pediatric and Adult Orthodontic and Non-Orthodontic Patients," in Special Issue Microbiology of Oral Diseases in the MDPI journal Microorganisms.  
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Dr. James Mah (both Dental Medicine) have been listed on Stanford University’s annual report of the top-cited researchers from across the globe based on the work completed during a single year, and throughout the person’s career. The most recent list published October 10, 2022, in PLOS Biology. The publicly available…
Dr. Neamat Hassan supervised third-year student McKay Tucker (both Dental Medicine) who earned one of five “Most Outstanding” clinical research awards during the 27th Annual Hinman Student Research Symposium for their project “Color Stability of Nano-Hybrid and Universal Composite Resin Restorations.” Tucker was one of the 101 presenting students…
Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole co-authored “Immunoglobulin gene expression profiles and microbiome characteristics in periodontitis in nonhuman primates,” which published August 2022 in the journal Molecular Biology.        
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental Medicine) co-authored “Medications Associated with Oral Lichenoid Lesions: A Single Site Retrospective Study,” which published as the cover story in the November 2022 issue of New York State Dental Journal.     
Dr. Robin Weltman (Dental Medicine) co-authored “Temperature Changes During Implant Osteotomy Preparations in Human Cadaver Tibiae Comparing MIS Straight Drills with Densah Burrs,” which published September 24 in the journal Genes. Weltman also co-authored “A Long-term Retrospective Analysis of Single Tooth Implants and Endodontic Therapies in a…
Manoj Sharma, Ravi Batra (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), Chia-Laing Dai (Teaching and Learning), and David Cappelli (Dental Medicine) have published a manuscript titled, “Predicting Flossing through the Application of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change among…