Project Grant D8820111

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 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 $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 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 $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 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...

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 $205,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121). The grant aims to investigate the relationship between the oral microbiome and adverse outcomes in pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients. Specifically, the project will: 1) Determine the relationship between dental treatment, the cariogenic oral microbiome, and adverse effects related to the...

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...

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded a $421,800 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) to Midwestern University. The purpose of this 3-year grant, with a start date of September 7, 2023, is to develop hybrid hydrogel-based dental adhesives that are less vulnerable to hydrolytic degradation compared to current methacrylate-based alternatives. The goal is to create a truly biomimetic dental adhesive that can not only...