Plymouth University Welcomes New Dental Researcher

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Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has welcomed a new dental researcher to their team.

The university is delighted to welcome internationally renowned researcher, Dr Bing Hu. Dr Hu will join the university as an associate professor in Oral and Dental Health Research.

Dr Hu qualified from the Capital Medical University in Beijing in 1997 and went on to complete specialist training in Orthodontics in 2000. He was one of China’s first recognised specialist orthodontists and his Master’s study was awarded the Year 2000 Science and Technology Awards of Beijing City.

He then completed his doctorate in a joint programme run by his university in China alongside the University of Strasbourg, France. His doctorate study focused on the development of the teeth and dental tissue engineering.

In 2009 Doctor Hu joined the research team at the University of Lausanne and also holds a position as an external expert at the University of Geneva.

Dr Hu has recently secured the Marie Curie Career Integration grant from the European Research Council and his work at Plymouth will focus on two key areas: stem cell research and oral cancer and craniofacial development and dental tissue engineering.

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August 7th, 2013 at 08:47 PM
Olga Munoz Pumarejo Says :

For all i have read about your latest researchs and praticing, womder if you some time have turn your head to Latin America to proposal and try to be in touch with the medical dentist comunity to make exchanges into share knowledges. We all over the world have to become to be more GIVERS (thet way we eat better ” with a good dental fit ” ) than to be just RECEIVERS ( as not also will eat well but dream better, endeed, as would have a peacefull conscience.
Thanks too much for your time. And plese dont take me wrong as let me say , my second homeland, for you to know , is And will be alweys England.

Yours
O.M Pumarejo