Kosaku Sawada

DDS, PhD

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Nationality: Japanese

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Dr. Kosaku Sawada was a recently graduated Oral Maxillo Facial Surgeon working in the cell biology laboratory. His main research interests have been 2 fold. He continues his work with Professor Reinhard Gruber involving bone conditioned medium and recently has evaluated the effects of either radiation therapy and antiseptic solutions on in vitro bone survival, morphology and release of growth factors.

 

Education

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2009 - 2012              Ph.D. Graduate School, Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Dental College (Chiba, Japan)

                                   Work supervised by Professor Shinichi Abe.

2001- 2007               D.D.S. The Nippon Dental University, School of Dentistry at Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

 

Professional Training and Employment

2016 - Present         Lecturer, Advanced Research Center

                                   The Nippon Dental University, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata (Niigata, Japan)

2013- 2015               Clinical and scientific fellowship at the Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, 

                                   University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland

2012-2016                Assistant Professor, Advanced Research Center

                                   The Nippon Dental University, School of Life Dentistry at Niigata (Niigata, Japan)

2007 - 2009              Dental Intern

                                   Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Toshima Hospital (Tokyo, Japan)

 

Publications with the Miron Lab

 

1. Sawada K, Caballé-Serrano J, Bosshardt DD, Schaller B, Miron RJ, Buser D, Gruber R: Antiseptic solutions modulate the paracrine-like activity of bone chips: differential impact of chlorhexidine and sodium hypochlorite, J Clin Periodontol, 42: 883-91, 2015. (IF= 4.0)

2. Sawada K, Fujioka-Kobayashi M, Kobayashi E, Schaller B, Miron RJ. Effects of antiseptic solutions commonly used in dentistry on bone viability, bone morphology and release of growth factors, J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 74: 247-54, 2016. (IF = 1.4)

3. Fujioka-Kobayashi M, Sawada K, Kobayashi E, Schaller B, Zhang Y, Miron RJ. Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein 9 (rhBMP9) induced osteoblastic behaviour on a collagen membrane compared with rhBMP2 (Journal of Periodontology. (IF = 2.7)

4. Kobayashi E, Fluckiger L, Fujioka-Kobayashi M, Sawada K, Sculean A, Schaller B, Miron RJ. Comparative release of growth factors from PRP, PRF and advanced-PRF. Clinical Oral Investigations (IF = 2.3)

5. Sawada K, Miron RJ, Leiser D, Caballé-Serrano J, Bosshardt DD, Schaller B, Buser D, Gruber R: High-dose irradiation of bone chips preserves the in vitro activity of bone-conditioned medium, J Oral Science (in press)

6. Fujioka-Kobayashi M, Sawada K, Kobayashi E, Schaller B, Zhang Y, Miron RJ. Osteogenic potential of rhBMP9 combined with a bovine derived natural bone mineral scaffold compared to rhBMP2, Clinical Oral Implants Research (IF = 3.9)

7. Sawada K, Fujioka-Kobayashi M, Kobayashi E, Bromme JO, Schaller B, Miron RJ. In vitro effects of 0 to 120 Grays of irradiation on bone viability, and release of growth factors. (BMC Oral Health, not yet online)