Two weeks out! The OMS Research Collaborative is back with a rapid-fire MRONJ session featuring new data, sharp 5-min research pitches, and global experts. Excited for this one.

Thrilled to co-chair our #IADR2025 symposium “Bioengineering Advances in Craniomaxillofacial Reconstruction” with Dr. Lukasz Witek here in beautiful Barcelona. Huge thanks to @iadr-oms.bsky.social, #DentalMaterials & #MineralizedTissue groups and everyone who packed the room! 🇪🇸 (1/6)

Congrats Caitlynn Barrows for successfully defending her PhD this week at @mda-uthgrad.bsky.social. Co-mentored by
@siwyoung.bsky.social and Mary (Cindy) Farach-Carson, she's the 1st PhD student to graduate from our lab. So proud of her amazing work with human salivary gland stem/progenitor cells.

Congratulations to @mda-uthgrad.bsky.social PhD student Andrea Molina Hernandez for winning an AACR MICR Travel Award to present her work in intratumoral cytokine therapy for head and neck cancer at the @theaacr.bsky.social Annual Meeting. Check out her poster on 4/28/25! #AACR25

Congrats Young Lab trainees for showcasing your work!
@riceuniversity.bsky.social undergrads Arman Hassan and Riya Pagilla discussed polarizing myeloid cells w/ STING agonists and new MDP hydrogels and @mda-uthgrad.bsky.social student Gema Sunga won 1st place at ACTS for her OSCC TME project! 💪

Congratulations to @utsdhouston.bsky.social DS2 student Shawn Nguyen for winning the @aadocrnsrg.bsky.social Outstanding Regional Representative award and being selected to present his work on phenotyping the oral cancer immune microenvironment at this year's @aadocr.bsky.social SCADA competition!

Andrea Hernandez Molina’s research in the Young Laboratory involves treatment for head and neck cancer. Hear more about her research as a PhD candidate in the Immunology Program, and why she is thankful to work with such amazing scientists in their “home away from home.” #WeAreGSBS #immunology

Excited to welcome Alejandra Cobos Perez to our lab as a new PhD graduate student! She will be co-mentored by
Omid Veiseh and Simon Young as she develops biomaterial-encapsulated micro-cytokine factories to treat oral cancer, as an ongoing collab between Young/Lee (UT) and Veiseh/Tabor (Rice)

Another excellent SITC annual meeting done and dusted here in Houston. Great line up of speakers, learned a lot as usual, and enjoyed seeing Andrea Molina Hernandez and Gemalene Sunga present their work at the poster sessions. Strong work y’all 👍 💪

Lots of great research presented at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry Student Research Showcase today! Arman Hassan, Shawn Nguyen, Andrea Molina Hernandez, Gemalene Sunga, Alejandra Cobos Perez, Caitlynn Barrows, Audra Boehm, Neeraja Dharmaraj, Nourhan Hussein repping
Young Lab projects 👍🧪