Dental/Craniofacial Biomaterials

The Dental/Craniofacial Biomaterials Special Interest Group focuses on basic, applied, and clinical biomaterials research using approaches ranging from synthetic materials to biological mechanisms of therapy, and including materials/biological constructs and tissue structure-function analyses as biomimetic/design bases. Each of these approaches converge into the larger objective of restoring oral tissue structure and function. Issues related to materials used or having potential for use intra-orally or extra-orally for the restoration, fixation, replacement, or regeneration of hard and soft tissues in and about the oral cavity and craniofacial region are included. New dental biomaterials technologies include advanced inorganic and organic materials, biomimetics, smart materials, tissue engineering, drug delivery strategies and surface modified materials.

Officers

Chair: Daniel Harrington, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
1941 East Rd
BBS 4202A
Houston, TX 77054
e: daniel.harrington@uth.tmc.edu

Vice Chair: Santiago Orrego, Ph.D.
Temple University
3223 North Broad Street AEGD Clinic - Room 2E15
Philadelphia, PA 19140
e:sorrego@temple.edu

Secretary/Treasurer: Vasudev Vivekanand Nayak, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
University of Miami
t: (917) 250- 9434
e: vvn217@nyu.edu

Program Chair: Christine Knabe-Ducheyne, DDS, PhD
Director Dept. of Experimental Orofacial Medicine
School of Dental Medicine
Philipps-University Marburg
Berlin Institute of Health Visiting Professor
Georg-Voigt-Str. 3
D-35039 Marburg
Germany
t: 49-6421 58 6-36 00
e: knabec@med.uni-marburg.de

Web Representative: Santiago Orrego, Ph.D.
Temple University
3223 North Broad Street AEGD Clinic - Room 2E15
Philadelphia, PA 19140
e:sorrego@temple.edu

Student Representative: Ben Swanson
University of Michigan
e: wbentons@umich.edu

Industry Representative: TBD
 

Biomaterials Forum Reporter: TBD
 

Past Chair: Kurtis Kasper, PhD
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Dept. of Orthodontics
7500 Cambridge St.
Ste. 5130
Houston, TX 77054
t: (713) 486-4174
e: fred.k.kasper@uth.tmc.edu

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