Project Grant D8530828

This $134,934 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) will establish an undergraduate summer research program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) focused on dental and oral-related research. The program aims to provide research skill development, exposure to dental/oral research, and build a pipeline of dedicated students interested in...

This $135,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) will fund the ADA Forsyth Institute's "Forsyth Student Scholars Summer Internships in Oral Health Research" program. The program aims to increase the diversity of students from underrepresented and educationally disadvantaged groups entering the oral health research field. Key program activities include a mentored...

This Cooperative Agreement award for $3,465,577 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research (CFDA 93.121) program will fund a prospective study examining the influences of socioeconomic stressors and educational opportunities on emerging adults' oral health outcomes. The project aims to: Examine how early adulthood socioeconomic stressors impact oral health over time, considering potential differences by race/ethnicity...

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded a $126,864 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) to The Leland Stanford Junior University. The grant, titled "RESEARCH AND MENTORING PROGRAM FOR UNDERREPRESENTED PRE-DENTAL STUDENTS (RAMP UP)", aims to increase interest in oral healthcare careers among underrepresented minority, first-generation, and low-income high school and community college students. The program...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program (CFDA 93.924), provides $118,434.00 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco to support an HIV training program for dental students. The program includes both didactic and clinical components, covering topics such as the epidemiology of HIV, oral opportunistic infections, and the...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program (CFDA 93.924) provides $174,744.00 to the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Health Sciences Division, to support comprehensive dental services and education for people living with HIV/AIDS. The award will fund didactic training on HIV disease for pre-doctoral and...

This federal Project Grant award of $206,194 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry program (CFDA 93.059) will support the Mountain Area Health Education Center, Inc. (MAHEC) in Asheville, North Carolina. The funding will be used to establish a Dental Faculty Loan Repayment Program to recruit and retain qualified oral health practitioners in the rural workforce of Western North Carolina. This program aims...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121), will investigate the causal effects of preventive dental services and dental screening requirements on academic achievement for children enrolled in Medicaid in Iowa. The $155,500 award will leverage a unique population-based dataset to identify the effects of services like oral exams, cleanings, fluoride application, and...

This $157,500 Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121), will support a one-year longitudinal study of the oral microbiome changes in HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU), HIV-positive, and HIV-unexposed uninfected children aged 3-4 years in Kisumu County, Kenya. The study will collect and analyze 1,080 oral swab samples from 360 children to compare the oral microbiome development...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research (CFDA 93.121) program, provides $1,248,472.00 in funding to the University of Maryland, Baltimore to conduct research aimed at disrupting implicit bias in dental clinical decision-making and mitigating its impact on the dentist-scientist workforce pipeline. The key objectives of this mixed-methods research project are to: 1) determine the prevalence and...