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Dr. Walter Siqueira Receives SHRF Excellence Award

At the 2020 Santé Awards Dr. Walter Siqueira (DDS, PhD), full professor and associate dean, academic, in the College of Dentistry, received an Excellence Award for the Top Establishment Grant: Biomedical. The Excellence Awards recognize the top-ranked applications in the past year’s funding competitions.

This is the first time a faculty member in the USask College of Dentistry has received an Excellence Award. The project for which Dr. Siqueira received the award is titled, “An innovative chair-side diagnostic method for detection of periodontal disease activity based on histatin 5 degradation rate”, which he submitted along with co-applicants Christine Downing, an instructor in the Dental Assisting program, and Dr. Francisco Otero-Cagide, an associate professor in the college. This project was selected for an Excellence Award from all health sciences and medical research projects in the province.

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