Dr. Alireza Moshaverinia, assistant professor in the division of advanced prosthodontics at the UCLA School of Dentistry, has received two innovator awards.
Moshaverinia received the GlaxoSmithKline Prosthodontist Innovator Award from the American College of Prosthodontists (ACP) Education Foundation and the ACP Research Committee. The award is accompanied by a grant that supports his research on the development of smart osteoconductive and adhesive membranes that will provide an appropriate microenvironment to direct the fate of the local progenitor stem cells for periodontal tissue regeneration.
Moshaverinia also received the Academy of Osseointegration Innovation in Implant Sciences Award, which is jointly sponsored by the International Association of Dental Research and the Academy of Osseointegration (AO), with funding provided exclusively by the AO. This award is accompanied by a grant that supports research on a diagnostic, device or procedural aspect of implant therapy that advances scientific knowledge of implant dentistry or tissue engineering.
A Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, Moshaverinia directs several NIH-funded research projects dedicated to studying basic mechanisms to regulate stem cell-mediated bone and tissue regeneration and the role of biomaterials. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals on dental materials, implant dentistry and stem cell-mediated tissue engineering, and he serves as the editorial revieboard member for several scientific journals, including the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry.
