Sunstar Foundation for Oral Health Promotion announces the winners of the third World Perio Research Awards

The Sunstar Foundation for Oral Health Promotion in collaboration with three prestigious scholarly journals in the field of periodontal research - Journal of Periodontology, Journal of Clinical Periodontology and Journal of Periodontal Research - has been sponsoring the Sunstar Foundation World Perio Research Awards since 2002. The Foundation established this Award to honor researchers and clinicians who have made key research advances in the investigation of the relationship between periodontal disease and the health of the entire body. It is a great pleasure for us to announce the winners of the third Sunstar Foundation World Perio Research Awards. The first prize-winning paper is： “Periodontal therapy alters gene expression of peripheral blood monocytes” Panos N. Papapanou, Michael H. Sedaghatfar, Ryan T. Demmer, Dana L. Wolf, Jun Yang, Georg A. Roth, Romanita Celenti, Paul B. Belusko, Evanthia Lalla, Paul Pavlidis Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 2007 Sept., 34 (9):736-747. The two papers selected as runners-up are: “Automatic mining of the literature to generate new hypotheses for the possible link between periodontitis and atherosclerosis: lipopolysaccharide as a case study” Kristina M. Hettne, Marc Weeber, Marja L. Laine, Hugo ten Cate, Scott Boyer, Jan A. Kors, Bruno G. Loos Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 2007 Dec., 34 (12):1016-1024. “Periodontal disease early in pregnancy is associated with maternal systemic inflammation among African American women” Amanda L. Horton, Kim A. Boggess, Kevin L. Moss, Heather L. Jared, James Beck, Steven Offenbacher Journal of Periodontology, 2008 July, 79 (7):1127-1132.