Kyle Morton (left) of DENTSPLY, Dean John D.B. Featherstone, Wendy Fu and Elaine Emmerson of Dr. Sarah Knox's lab
Second-year dental student Wendy Fu will represent UCSF in the ADA/DENTSPLY Student Clinician Research Program during the 56th annual American Dental Association annual session, Oct. 21-22 in Denver.
Fu will present “Sympathetic innervation stimulates salivary gland differentiation.” Her mentor is saliva researcher Sarah Knox, PhD.
Fu, who is president of UCSF Dentistry’s John C. Greene Society, won third place in the 2016 DENTSPLY/Caulk Student Research Group competition.
The ADA/DENTSPLY Student Clinician Research Program invites each dental school in the United States and Puerto Rico to select a student representative for the research poster competition held during the ADA annual session.