ADA extends deadline for investigator award

The ADA has extended the deadline for applications for the new John W. Stanford New Investigator Award to September 30, 2012.

The extension provides applicants enough time to apply for this award, which highlights the role dental standards play in assuring patient health and safety and the efficacy of dental products, according to the ADA.

Dental students and dentists who have earned their dental degree no earlier than 2007 are eligible to apply for the award. Applicants are required to submit an original research report that could be published, and they must submit an explanation of how the research incorporates current dental standards and/or contributes to the development of dental standards. Applications can be downloaded from the ADA website.

The awards committee, along with the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs, will select the winner, who will be announced in December. The winner will receive airfare and a two-night hotel stay to present their award-winning paper in March 2013 at the ADA Standards Committee on Dental Products and the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 106 on Dentistry Meeting in Seattle. The winner will also be announced in the ADA News, and the winning paper will be eligible for publication in a dental journal.

The John W. Stanford New Investigator Award was designed to encourage dentists and dental students to conduct standards-based research and standards development. The late John W. Stanford, PhD, was a pivotal force in dental standards development for more than 40 years and was responsible for the establishment of the ADA's current standards program.