Professor of Oral Medicine Miguel Ángel González Moles obtains the award for Distinguished Scientist in Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology from the International Association for Dental Research
It is the most prestigious award in the world in the field of dental research
The co-investigator responsible for the group A04 Digital and Computational Pathology and Immunopathology and Cancer of the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada ibs.GRANADA and professor of Oral Medicine at the University of Granada Miguel Ángel González Moles, has obtained the Distinguished Scientist in Medicine award Oral And Oral Pathology in its 2023 edition. This is the most prestigious international award in the field of dental research and is granted by the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) to recognize the contribution to knowledge in the field of Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology.
The granting of this prize to the professor and researcher of the ibs.GRANADA and the UGR is recognition of the extensive scientific career of González Moles, who is also the first Spaniard to achieve it. The professor has essentially focused on the study of the prognostic predictors of oral cavity cancer, a disease with a poor prognosis if it is not diagnosed on time. In this field, González Moles has pointed out the difficulties in reaching an early diagnosis of oral cancer and how to approach and implement the necessary measures to achieve it.
Among the most recent achievements of the research group led by González Moles are the selection based on the best scientific evidence of the molecular alterations that best predict mortality from oral cancer, as well as an extensive line of research focused on risk prediction evolution to cancer of the most important precancerous lesions that affect the oral cavity. An important part of the research carried out in this field has focused on oral lichen planus, a very common autoimmune disease that can progress to cancer in up to 3% of cases.
Miguel Ángel González Moles has published his research in Oral Oncology y Cancer, two of the most prestigious journals in their research field. González Moles, awarded multiple times, has disseminated the results of his work in 160 international publications that have resulted in more than 8.000 citations in other international journals. The now laureate has also been a member of the international group of experts that advises the World Health Organization (WHO) on the package of oral care services that will be included in the WHO compendium of universal health coverage for the year 2030. He is also part of the Working Group of the WHO Collaborative Center for the study of oral cancer. Miguel Ángel González Moles is included in the 2% of the most influential scientists in the world in all editions of the prestigious ranking published by Stanford University.
On the other hand, the IADR is made up of more than 10.000 scientists from around the world whose purpose is to promote dental, oral and craniofacial research to improve the health and well-being of all people in the world. The IADR values and promotes scientific research carried out with the highest levels of rigor, innovation and ethics, in all dental disciplines, with the general objective of reducing inequalities in oral health and taking measures and positions proactively to its improvement.
