Sarah L. Dallas, PH.D., has been named a fellow of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), the premier scholarly organization for scientists like Dallas, who specialize in bone and mineralized tissue study.

With roughly 30 years in the society, her designation as a fellow recognizes her long-term engagement with the society and her outstanding contributions to the field of bone and mineral science.

At UMKC, she serves as the Lee M. and William Lefkowitz Endowed Professor in the School of Dentistry’s Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, and is a University of Missouri Curator’s Distinguished Professor.

In addition to being named a fellow, Dallas was selected this year to give an oral presentation of her research at the 2023 ASBMR Annual Meeting, the world’s largest meeting in the bone, mineral and musculoskeletal research field. According to Dallas, the selection itself is an accomplishment, because it means her abstract scored in the top 10% of the thousands that were submitted.

“That score was a bit of a shocker for me,” Dallas said. “It’s a real feather in the cap for our lab.”
The acknowledgement did not end there. Her abstract was recognized as the most outstanding in the basic sciences, having received the highest score by the judges.

Her abstract was titled, “Interrogating Osteoclast Biology by Live Cell Imaging Reveals Novel Insight Into Their Cellular and Resorption Dynamics and Real-Time Effects of OPG-Fc and RANKL.”

Dallas is the director of the Confocal Microscopy and Multiphoton Core at UMKC. She was recently awarded $600,000 from the National Institutes of Health’s shared instrumentation program to purchase a new confocal microscope, which allows for building high-quality, 3D images. She is three-for-three in applying for these instrumentation grants.