Congratulations to Erika Bauza Nowotny for her big win! Erika won the USC Stevens Center for Innovation’s “Most Commercial Potential” award for her poster presentation at the 2025 Ostrow Research Day.
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Gayathri Visakan wins Best Poster at the 17th annual Ostrow Research Day
Congratulations to Gayathri Visakan for her winning poster presentation in the Postdoctoral Fellows category at the 2025 Ostrow Research Day!
New Publication in Biomimetics
Bauza Nowotny E, Jassar S, Phark J-H, Moradian-Oldak J. Treating White Spot Lesions and Non-Carious Cervical Lesions with Amelogenin Peptide-Based Hydrogel. Biomimetics. 2025; 10(2):120. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10020120.
NIDCR grants a competing renewal award to support Prof. Oldak’s research for its 23rd year!
Congratulations to Dr. Janet Moradian-Oldak on her fourth competing renewal of “Matrix based mineral enamel-biomimetics,” an R01 grant she has been working on since 2001! With this grant, her lab has been able to study the structure and functionality of ameloblastin (Ambn) by looking at how it interacts with different targets, with the hope of gaining further understanding of enamel formation.
“Ambn is a matricellular protein, and its complex role in amelogenesis relies on a multitargeting property centered in the region of the sequence encoded by exon 5. Ambn interacts with ameloblast cells via the amphipathic helix (AH) domain and functions to anchor the mineralizing extracellular matrix to enamel-forming cells.”
Janet Oldak Receives USC Mentoring Award
Dr. Janet Oldak was honored last spring with the 2023 USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students, an honor bestowed upon outstanding faculty mentors by previous recipients. Please read more about this well-deserved honor here.
