EAO announces the winners of its 2010 Research Competitions
Brussels, November 02, 2010 – The winners of two coveted research prizes, awarded annually by the European Association for Osseointegration (EAO), have been announced.
The EAO Clinical Research Prize for 2010 has been awarded to Maurizio Tonetti from Italy and the EAO Basic Research Prize to two winners, Pascale Habre-Hallage from Lebanon and Ulricke Kuchler from Austria.
All three winners were awarded their prizes at the 19th Annual Scientific Congress of the EAO which took place in Glasgow from 6-9 October.
Each winner received a Diploma from the EAO and a prize of €2,000. The 18 finalists had earlier been selected from nearly 500 abstracts submitted to the EAO Congress.
Maurizio Tonetti and his team won the EAO Clinical Research Prize for their study: "Immediate vs delayed implant placement in anteriors: The TIMING randomised controlled clinical trial". The multi-centre study, which compared the benefits and disadvantages of immediate and delayed implant placement, was chosen from eight finalists.
Pascale Habre-Hallage won her prize for a study entitled "fMRI shows cortical activation following mechanical stimulation of oral implants"; and Ulricke Kuchler for a study entitled "Intermittent PTH fails to stimulate osseointegration in diabetic rats".
"The Award Committee members were faced with a hard job to select the winners," said Søren Schou, President Elect of EAO and member of both Award Committees. "The EAO annual congress is an important international platform for the presentation and exchange of new research achievements and We were pleased to receive so many abstracts from many of the world’s leading scientific experts," he said.
"We hope that these studies will move towards providing some of the answers to the controversies that dentists face in their daily practice."
The EAO Congress was attended by more than 3,500 people from 76 countries around the world.
For further information, please contact:
Gloria Guevara
European Association for Osseointegration
gloria [dot] guevara [at] congrex [dot] com
Tel: +32 26 43 20 49