The 100th General Session & Exhibition of theInternational Association for Dental Research (IADR) was held online from June 20 to 25. The virtual meeting marks the centenary of the founding of IADR.In October, 2018, IADR officially announced that this grand meeting would be held in Chengdu, and it is the first time that IADR holds the annual meeting in China since its establishment 100 years ago.
On June 21, the West China School of Stomatology of Sichuan University hosted the 2022 IADR Academy academic conference. Professor Ling Ye, President of the West China School of Stomatology, served as the chairman of the conference. Dr. Eric Reynolds, President of IADR, Professor Chuanbin Guo who is president of the Chinese Stomatological Association, Dr. Christopher Fox, CEO of IADR and other guests were invited to attend the opening ceremony and deliver a speech.Those attending the meeting could choose from among 207 Interactive Talk sessions, seven Focused Learning Sessions, three Hands-on Workshops, five satellite symposia, 52 Symposia, one Distinguished Lecture Series and a plenary. Professor Cun-Yu Wang (an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine) of the University of California, Los Angeles, Yang Chai(an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Fellow)of the University of Southern California, Professor Paul Sharpe of King's College London, Professor Hiroshi Egusa of the Northeastern University of Japan, Professor Tong Cao of the National University of Singapore, Professor Ling Ye of WCSS and other well-known scholars made presentations.
Professor Xiaodong Feng, Professor Yu Shi and Professor Xing Zhao, all outstanding young scholars of WCSS, were invited to preside over the symposia of the conference. Focusing on the frontier of oral craniomaxillofacial research, this session built a platform for interaction with academic masters and outstanding scholars.
Meantime, WCSS also organized a number of theme forums and seminars, such as dental implant and children's stomatology. About ten scholars from WCSS served as the chairman of individual venues. Over 80 faculty and students of WCSS gave a keynote report respectively, showcasing the fruitful results WCSS had achieved in discipline development, research and talent training over the years.
What’s more, WCSS teachers and students have won a number of international academic awards. For instance, Professors Xuedong Zhou and Lei Cheng's research team won the 2021 IADR/AADOCR Williams J Gies Awards, which was to recognize the best paper published in the Journal of Dental Research last year. This is also the second time that the team has won this honor since 2013. In addition, the research results of Associate Professor Xin Zheng and Yuhan Li were shortlisted for the global finals of Joseph Lister Young Researcher Award, and Kexin Lei won the IADR orthodontic and craniofacial clinical and translational research award.
