Publications and Awards

Publications

Awards

2022

IADR/AADR WILLIAM J. GIES AWARD. 

2021

IADR Kulzer Award 2021 for Latin America, won by PhD student Isadora M. Garcia (mentors: Mary Anne Melo, Michael D. Weir, Huakun Xu). 

2021

IADR Kulzer Award 2021 for North America, won by PhD student AbdulRahman Balhaddad (mentors: Mary Anne Melo, Michael D. Weir, Huakun Xu).  

2019

Ph.D. student AbdulRahman Balhaddad won the 2019 Academy of Dental Materials Ph.D. travel Award (mentors: Mary Anne Melo, Michael D. Weir, Huakun Xu).  

2019

Travel Award, 5th Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions, June 12-13, 2019, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA (Student: Maria Ibrahim.  Mentors: Mary Anne Melo, Michael D. Weir, Huakun Xu). 

2019

Travel Award, University of Maryland Baltimore Graduate Student Association, April 2019, (Student: Maria Ibrahim.  Mentors: Mary Anne Melo, Michael D. Weir, Huakun Xu). 

2019

Graduate Translational Research Award, Graduate School Research Conference, UMB, March 15, 2019 (Student: Bashayer Baras. Mentors: Huakun Xu, Michael D. Weir, Mary Anne Melo). 

2018

Huakun Xu, IADR Distinguished Scientist Award, International Association for Dental Research (IADR), 2018. 

2017

Our paper made the top 10 most-cited papers list in the past three years in International J Oral Sci.   

2017

 Our paper was selected in “2016 Highlights” by Biomedical Materials as among the very best and most influential research published in the journal representing cutting edge topics in biomaterials and tissue engineering related research. 

http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-605X/page/Highlights-of-2016 

2015

IADR Arthur R. Frechette Prosthodontic Research Award, 2015, Boston, MA, USA (Student: Ping Wang.  Mentors: Huakun Xu, Michael D. Weir). 

2015

 Huakun Xu, Invited Keynote Speaker, International Association for Dental Research (IADR), 2015, Boston, MA, USA.  

2014

Huakun Xu, Champion of Excellence, University of Maryland, Baltimore. 

2014

Huakun Xu, Invited Keynote Speaker, 2nd International Symposium on Microecology and Microbial Biofilm, Nanning, Guangxi, China. 

2014

 Huakun Xu, Invited Keynote Speaker, International Forum of Oral Biomaterials and Tissue Regeneration, Wenzhou, China. 

2013

IADR/AADR WILLIAM J. GIES AWARD. 

2012

Huakun Xu, Invited Speaker, Friends of the NIDCR Annual Meeting, Washington DC. 

2011

 Huakun Xu, Invited Speaker, Friends of the NIDCR Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. 

2009

Huakun Xu, MARYLAND INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD.