The Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Elizabeth Zimmermann has been named a William Dawson Scholar.
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Elizabeth Zimmermann joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 2020. Her research focuses on materials characterization, mechanical behavior of materials and tissues, structure-function relationships, and pre-clinical and clinical imaging of mineralized tissues. She obtained her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf and at the Shriners Hospitals for Children-Canada, where she worked with clinicians and scientists to investigate bone adaptation in genetic disorders like Marfan Syndrome and osteogenesis imperfecta using pre-clinical and clinical imaging techniques.
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The Faculty congratulates her on this nomination!