This 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) provides $134,934 to establish an undergraduate summer research program focused on dental and oral health research at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The program aims to develop research skills, provide exposure to dental/oral research, and build a pipeline for students interested in pursuing...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $271,953 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) to the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Dentistry. The grant funding will support OHSU's initiative to promote oral healthcare careers, particularly among high school students from underrepresented backgrounds, through an explorer's program, paid summer research experiences, and community outreach...
This federal Project Grant award for $999,776.00, awarded on Sep 13, 2024 by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121), aims to advance oral health equity through strengthening the scientific basis for innovations in population-based approaches to improving dental care access, utilization, and quality. The research program will incorporate a framework that integrates multi-level perspectives and...
This 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) provides funding of $129,420.00 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to conduct research focused on regulating skeletal stem cell and neutrophil dynamics for improved cleft palate bone regeneration. The key objectives are to: 1) Identify how bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) based palatal and mandibular bone...
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded a $800,000 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The objective of this 1-year grant, with a start date of June 5, 2024, is to elucidate how the matrix metalloproteinase 13 (MMP13) protein regulates the dental pulp's reparative processes and the inflammatory response in acute pulpitis. The research project will leverage conditional...
This $600,029 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 is for a research project titled "Mechanisms of Hyperactive RAS Signaling in Craniofacial and Dental Diseases" conducted by the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California. The key objectives are to: Determine how dysregulation of the RAS signaling pathway causes dental defects and enamel...
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded a $432,209 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research (CFDA 93.121) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for a 2-year period starting on August 1, 2023. The funding supports research to investigate the role of the CXCL10-CXCR3 axis in the compounding effects of diabetes mellitus on periodontitis. Specifically, the research aims to further elucidate the role of CXCL10 in the...
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded a $161,000 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research program (CFDA 93.121) to Case Western Reserve University. The grant, which runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026, will support the development of new statistical methods for analyzing the causal effects of individual components within bundled interventions. This research aims to address the challenge of evaluating the impact of specific...
This $162,216 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) supports the ADA Forsyth Institute's research to investigate microbe-microbe interactions within the oral microbiome. The study aims to employ a combination of expansion microscopy and multiplex FISH imaging to analyze microbial organization and quantify adhesion forces at the single-cell level. This approach...
This 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) provides $205,000.00 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to investigate the relationship between the oral microbiome and adverse outcomes in pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant recipients. The research aims to determine how dental caries and the cariogenic oral microbiome prior to...
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded a $126,864 Project Grant under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.121) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University). The RAMP UP program aims to increase the interest of underrepresented minority, first-generation, and low-income high school and community college students in oral healthcare careers. This will be achieved through career awareness activities during the academic year and an 8-week hands-on summer research internship. The internship will focus on building research skills and directly applying them to NIDCR-funded dental regenerative medicine research projects. The award period is from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2029.