The College of Dentistry has built a thriving research environment from which valuable new knowledge emerges – discoveries that improve oral health outcomes and influence training of the next generation of dental professionals and oral health researchers. Our current research spans three broad areas, with meaningful impact for patients, dental professionals, students, and beyond:
- enhancing dental education through evidence-based approaches
- improving clinical outcomes and access to dental care, focusing on priority populations
- developing innovating diagnostics, therapeutics, and disease biomarkers.
Donor support will ensure the college can attract and retain distinguished scholars and high-performing graduate students who advance our research mandate.
Awards
Establish an endowment to support research needs including:
- Seed funding for innovative, early-stage research projects to acquire preliminary data or proof of concept, as well as important small-budget clinical and educational research projects that are not well suited for research agency grants
- Graduate Student Travel and Publication Awards
- Infrastructure support for researchers who pursue highly technical research in diagnostics, therapeutics and disease biomarkers requiring specialized equipment for their cutting-edge research.
Graduate student fellowship
Fellowships support high-performing graduate students who are pursuing a research-based doctoral degree in oral and/or oral-systemic health links. To excel, doctoral students must devote themselves full time to their program, and fellowships play an important role by alleviating financial strain on students thus allowing them to concentrate their full efforts to the program.
Without the contributions of doctoral students, the exciting research conducted in our college would not be possible. These competitive fellowships will provide deserving doctoral students with monthly stipends to support their living and program costs.