The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded a $2,055,996 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The grant, awarded on September 20, 2024, will fund a research program to investigate skeletal stem cell plasticity as a central mechanism in craniofacial bone formation and diseases. The program consists of three main components: 1) Examining the fates and...
This National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) Project Grant award under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) provides $320,053 to the University of Southern California (USC) to conduct comprehensive research on the craniofacial skeleton and connective tissue development. The 8-year project will utilize advanced techniques in spatial transcriptomics and mouse genetics to identify genes and pathways regulating the assembly of the craniofacial...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $294,000 and spanning September 2024 to September 2026, was provided by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research (CFDA 93.121) program. The grant supports research to understand the mechanisms of craniofacial cartilage differentiation from human neural crest stem cells, with the goal of developing tissue engineering approaches to repair birth defects and injuries to the head and...
This $606,296 federal 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 support the development of advanced three-dimensional (3D) craniofacial growth models. The University of Missouri System, through its project titled "Evidence-Based Optimization of Treatment Timing in the Craniofacial Complex," will collect and analyze a large database of 40,000 cone-beam computed...
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded a $521,209.45 Project Grant (CFDA 93.121 - Oral Diseases and Disorders Research) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) to conduct research on the role of the transcriptional repressor ZEB2 in human neural crest cell formation and craniofacial pathology. The project aims to delineate ZEB2's function in regulating TGF-beta signaling during neural crest cell development and how...
This Project Grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, will fund research into the genetic basis of human skeletal facial morphology through July 2025. Provided under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121), the $936,510 in funding will support two key aims. First, the awardee will enhance current mesh landmarking procedures for craniofacial bone by developing a dense quasi-landmark...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,963,287.00 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121), aims to develop multi-functional 3D printed dental implants that can effectively prevent peri-implantitis, a common and challenging implant-related oral infection. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Developing highly tunable silver-doped amorphous magnesium phosphate...
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has awarded a $148,176 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley. The funding will support research to uncover novel gene regulatory networks underlying craniofacial development and specialization in pupfish species. The project aims to leverage the unique evolutionary model of Cyprinodon pupfishes on San Salvador Island to...
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has awarded a $557,606 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research (CFDA 93.121) program to President and Fellows of Harvard College, doing business as Harvard Medical School. The grant, with a period of performance from April 16, 2025 to March 31, 2030, will support research to characterize periodontal crestal stem cells (PCSCs) and elucidate the signaling pathways that regulate PCSC activation and...
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded a $306,633 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) to Ther-Ai LLC for the development of CraniaMaP, a software suite for automated segmentation and landmarking of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans. The goal of this SBIR Phase I project is to create a robust, comprehensive solution that can enhance the speed and accuracy of critical diagnostic processes in orthodontics,...