In order to apply for a CED-IADR Robert Frank – UNDERGRADUATE Award, you have to meet the following conditions:

• Candidates must be a CED-IADR member 
• Candidates must have their affiliation in the CED-IADR area.
• Candidates should be 35 years or younger at the time of application.
• Candidates must submit an abstract before the meeting abstract-submission deadline
• Candidates need to be the first author and presenter of the abstract.
• One can only apply for ONE competition at the CED/NOF-IADR meeting. (Exception: you can apply in parallel for a CED-IADR Travel Grant and/or a CED-IADR Visiting Scholar Grant).
• This award is reserved for undergraduate students/studying for their first university degree (those who received a dental or other (medical) university degree before application do not qualify for this category).
• Winners are requested to attend the General Assembly on The Friday of the congress.
• The UNDERGRADUATE CED-IADR Robert Frank Award can be received only once.

The competition will be taking place on the Wednesday afternoon prior to the CED/NOF-IADR Congress.

Contact info for additional questions: ced.iadr@uzleuven.be.

In order to apply for a CED-IADR Robert Frank – POSTGRADUATE/Basic Science Research Award, you have to meet the following conditions:

• Candidates must be a CED-IADR member
• Candidates must have their affiliation in the CED-IADR area.
• Candidates should be 35 years or younger at the time of application.
• Candidates must submit an abstract before the meeting abstract-submission deadline
• Candidates need to be the first author and presenter of the abstract.
• One can only apply for ONE competition at the CED/NOF-IADR meeting. (Exception: you can apply in parallel for a CED-IADR Travel Grant and/or a CED-IADR Visiting Scholar Grant).
• This award is reserved for researchers enrolled in a post-dental/medical, post-graduate, or Ph.D. program or are within 3 years after having obtained their Ph.D. (max. 3 years Postdoc at the time of application).
• Winners are requested to attend the General Assembly on the FRiday of the congress
• The Postgraduate CED-IADR Robert Frank Award can be received only once, but if you have previously won the Undergraduate Award, you are entitled to participate in the Postgraduate Competition.

The competition will be taking place on the Wednesday afternoon prior to the Congress..  

Contact info for additional questions: ced.iadr@uzleuven.be.

In order to apply for a CED-IADR Robert Frank – POSTGRADUATE/Clinical Research Award, you have to fulfil the following conditions:

• Candidates must be a CED-IADR member.
• Candidates must have their affiliation in the CED-IADR area.
• Candidates should be 35 years or younger at the time of application
• Candidates must submit an abstract before the meeting abstract-submission deadline.
• Candidates need to be the first author and presenter of the abstract.
• One can only apply for ONE competition at the 2024 CED/NOF-IADR congress  (Exception: you can apply in parallel for a CED-IADR Travel Grant and/or a CED-IADR Visiting Scholar Grant).
• This award is reserved for researchers enrolled in a post-dental/medical, post-graduate, or Ph.D. program or are within 3 years after having obtained their Ph.D. (max. 3 years Postdoc at the time of application).
• Winners are requested to attend the General Assembly on the Friday of the congress.
• The Postgraduate CED-IADR Robert Frank Award can be received only once, but if you have previously won the Undergraduate Award, you are entitled to participate in the Postgraduate Competition.

The competition will be taking place on the Wednesday prior to the CED/NOF-IADR Congress.   

Contact info for additional questions: ced.iadr@uzleuven.be.

• Submit an abstract to the CED/PER-IADR Congress via the online abstract submission site and check the box representing the respective award category you wish to compete in (see below the categories junior/senior).
• Follow the additional submission instructions on the abstract submission website.

• Once the notification of abstract acceptance is communicated to the presenters, the Jury will make a pre-selection out of all abstracts submitted to the competition. 
• All applicants will be informed by email of the pre-selection results. 

• Candidates pre-selected for the CED-IADR Robert Frank competition will have to present their abstract orally in front of a 'CED-IADR Robert Frank Award' jury. 
• The CED-IADR Robert Frank abstracts/presentations will be displayed throughout the congress in a poster session. 

The competition usually takes place on the Wednesday afternoon prior the CED/PER-IADR congress. 

Usually, the CED-IADR competition jury consists of 3 members (from which at least 1 is a CED-IADR Board Member) specialised in different scientific fields. The CED-IADR Office ensures that the jury members have no conflict of interest with any of the competitors. 

Each jury member receives an individual score sheet, which they are to complete individually and independently. Upon completion, the score sheets are collected by the Chair of the CED-IADR Awards & Grants, who will calculate the average score of the 3 jury members. In the next stage, the award winners are selected.

Judging Criteria (equally rated):

• Overall study impact
• Materials & methods
• Presentation/poster design
• Presentation skills
• Discussion and question responses

For each category, up to 2 prizes are awarded. 

Prizes consist of:   

• First prize: 1.000 € + 1 year free membership
• Second prize: 500 € + 1 year free membership

Please be informed that it is mandatory for the CED-IADR Robert Frank Award winners to attend the CED-IADR General Assembly (GA) for the official ceremony. 

Note: If a winner is not present at the CED-IADR General Assembly, the prize will not be paid. 

Payment of the monetary prize will be by wire transfer shortly after the meeting.

In 2023 (CED/NOF-IADR Congress in Rhodes)

Robert Frank Award – Category Junior

1st prize: Duygu Dervis, Ege University School of Dentistry, Turkey

“Evaluation of Surface Micro-hardness of Chlorhexidine Diacetate Added Glass-ionomer Cement”

(€ 1,000 + 1 year free membership)

Robert Frank Award – Category Senior Basic Science Research 

1st Prize: Chen Zong, KU Leuven, Belgium

“Periodontal Ligament Transplantation With Gold Nanoparticles Prevents Orthodontic Root Resorption”

(€ 1,000 + 1 year free membership)

2nd Prize: Zuodong Zhao, KU Leuven, Belgium

“Transcriptomic Profiling of Periodontal Ligament Tissue Subjected to Orthodontic Force”

(€ 500 + 1 year free membership)

Robert Frank Award – Category Senior Clinical Research 

1st prize: Elif Aslan, Ege University School of Dentistry, Turkey

“Comparison of 3D Bone Characteristics of MRONJ Using 2D&3D Images”

(€ 1,000 + 1 year free membership)

2nd prize: Maria Joao Maia Azevedo, ACTA Amsterdam, The Netherlands

“Oral Microbiota of Mother-Child Pairs: Impact of Maternal Cardiometabolic Health”

(€ 500 + 1 year free membership)

2nd prize: Christopher Herpel, Heidelberg University, Germany

“Head and Neck Pain Drawings: Diagnostic Value for Temporomandibular Disorders”

(€ 500 + 1 year free membership)

In 2022 (PER-IADR Congress in Marseille) 

• Senior Basic Science Research (7 competitors)

  • 1^st prize (€ 1,000 + 1 year free membership): Foteini Machla (Greece): ‘Dentin-Pulp Complex Regeneration: Towards a Paradigm Shift for Dental Practice’
  • 2^nd prize (€ 500 + 1 year free membership): Tadej Mirt (Slovenia): ‘Effect of air-particle abrasion on reliability of additively-manufactured zirconia ceramics’
  • 2^nd prize (€ 500 +1 year free membership) Line Etiennot (Belgium): ‘Properties of Dental Composite with Bisguaiacol-based Monomer Replacing BisGMA’

• Senior Clinical Research (7 competitors)

  • 1^st prize (€ 1,000 + 1 year free membership): Crystal Marruganti (Italy): ‘The physical activity paradox and periodontitis: a population-based study’
  • 2^nd prize (€ 500 + 1 year free membership): Hilde Bronkhorst (the Netherlands): ‘5-Year Tooth-Wear Progression in Severe Tooth-Wear Patients using 3D-Measurements’
  • 2^nd prize (€ 500 + 1 year free membership): Tine Malgaj (Slovenia): ‘A Novel Method for Pretreating Zirconia Resin-Bonded Fixed Dental Prostheses’

In 2021 (online competition):

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Lara Hemeryck (Leuven, Belgium) “Dental Organoids – a New Approach Towards Human Tooth Regeneration?“
• 2^nd prize: Manuel Toledano-Osorio (Granada, Spain)“Bone-forming Genes Expression of Osteoblasts Cultured on Polymeric Nanosctructured Membranes."
• 2^nd prize: Anna Ockerman (Leuven, Belgium)“L-PRF Membranes from Patients on Anticoagulants Differ from Controls”

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Athina Christina Georgiou (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) “The microbiome of endodontic infections and its association with clinical features“
• 2^nd prize: Catalina Moreno Rabie (Leuven, Belgium) "Radiographic Predictors of MRONJ in Patients Undergoing Tooth Extraction"

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Mehmet Ali Soylu (Konya, Turkey) “Interfacial Characteristics of BIOfactor MTA and Biodentine with Dentin"

In 2020 (online competition):

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Matthias Widbiller (Regensburg, Germany)      “Dentin Matrix Proteins – A Tool for Dental Pulp Regeneration“
• 2^nd prize: Chloé Lefournis (Marseille, France)“Pulp fibroblasts affect macrophage differentiation and regulatepulp inflammation”

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Madeline Kosho (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) “Cardiovascular risk assessment in periodontitis patients”
• 2^nd prize: Stephanie van Leeuwen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  “The salivary proteome in relation to oral mucositis“

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Nicolas Obtel (Paris, France) “Post-eruptive changes of porcine tooth enamel properties”
• 2^nd prize: Ahmet Aydogdu (Konya, Turkey) “Cementoblasts Proliferation & Attachment on the Nicotine
  Treated Dentin“

In 2019:

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Mohammed H. Ahmed (Leuven, Belgium); Abstract title: "Multi-parameter Evaluation of Acrylamide HEMA-alternative Monomers in 2-Step Adhesives.”
• 2^nd prize: Andrea Alonso Español (Madrid, Spain); Abstract title: "Activity of Omega-3 Fatty Acids Against Oral Pathogenic Bacteria." 

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Marije Kaan (Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Abstract title: “Feasibility of home sampling by mothers in infants for microbiota analysis of multiple oral niches”
• 2^nd prize: Dono Kahharova (Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Abstract title: "Salivary Microbiome in Infants Three Years Prior the Clinical Diagnosis of ECC."

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Beatriz Ferreira Fernandes (Lisbon, Portugal); Abstract title: "The Influence of a Laser Modified Zirconia Implant Surface on Human Osteoblast In-vitro Behavior"

In 2018:

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Maria Bousnaki  (Thessaloníki, Greece)
• 2^nd prize: Xin Lie (Leuven, Belgium)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Benedikt Luka (Freiburg, Germany)
• 2^nd prize: Neshka Manchorova-Veleva (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Marina Miteva (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• 1^st prize: Sophiko Gingichashvili (Jerusalem, Israel)

In 2017:

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Marco Tatullo (Crotone, Italy)
• 2^nd prize: Herman Agis (Vienna, Austria)
• 2^nd prize: Christina Hadjichristou (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Florian Beck (Vienna, Austria)
• 2^nd prize: Eduardo Montero Solis (Madrid, Spain)

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Ruza Bjelovucic (Zagreb, Croatia)

In 2016:

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Mariano N. Pedano (Leuven, Belgium)
• 2^nd prize: Stevan Cokic (Leuven, Belgium)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Eva Klaric Sever (Zagreb, Croatia)

In 2015:

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Fabio Rodriguez (Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, Spain)

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize:  Richard Miron (Bern, Switzerland)
• 2^nd prize: Michael Wolf (Bonn, Germany)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize:   Aliye Akcali (Izmir, Turkey)
• 2^nd prize:   Yvonne Jockel-Schneider (Würzburg, Germany)

In 2014:

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Idan Redenski (Jerusalem, Israel)

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Masanao Inokoshi (Leuven, Belgium)
• 2^nd prize: Zuzanna Oruba (Krakow, Poland)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Ana Badovinac (Zagreb, Croatia)
• 2^nd prize: Ivan Salaric (Zagreb, Crotia)

In 2013:

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Michael Wolf (Bonn, Germany)
• 2^nd prize: Andreij Ionescu (Milan, Italy)
• 2^nd priize: Ivana Nedeljkovic (Leuven, Belgium)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Ilknur Ozenci (Istanbul, Turkey)
• 2^nd prize: Domenico Dalessandri (Brecia, Italy)

In 2012:

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Ashvin Babbar (London, UK)
• 2^nd prize: Sadhvik Vijay (London, UK)

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Sasha Dimitrova-Nakov (Paris, France)
• 2^nd prize: Danijela Marovic (Zagreb, Croatia)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Martin Schimmel (Geneva, Switzerland)

In 2011:

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Clementine Ribeyron (Lyon, France)

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Guavri Caliaperoumal (Paris, France)
• 2^nd prize: Susanne Proksch (Freiburg, Germany)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Peter Stiedl (Budapest, Hungary)

In 2010:

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Orsolya Hegyesi (Budapest, Hungary)
• 1^st prize: Aline de Ameida Neves (Leuven, Belgium)
• 2^nd prize: Azine Azari (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Wijnand Teeuw (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

In 2009:

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Maria Patrizia De Caprio (Naples, Italy)

Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Athina Bakopoulou (Thessaloniki, Greece)
• 1^st prize: Yu-Chih Chiang (Munich, Germany)

Senior Clinical Science:

• 1^st prize: Kerstin Bitter (Berlin, Germany)
• 1^st prize: Florian Beuer (Munich, Germany)

In 2008:

Junior Robert Frank Award:

• 1^st prize: Annelies van Ende (Leuven, Belgium)
   

• Senior Basic Science:

• 1^st prize: Nora Heng (Berlin, Germany)
• 2^nd prize: Vincenzo D'Anto (Naples, Italy)

Want to be our next CED-IADR winner? To apply, see the regulations above.