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Two NIDCR-supported resource centers—part of NIDCR’s Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Tissue Regeneration Consortium (DOCTRC)—are soliciting pre-proposals for their Interdisciplinary Translational Project programs, with one-year awards of up to $150,000.
NIH has issued four awards totaling approximately $1 million each per year to support outstanding researchers in their pursuit of high-risk, high-reward projects with the possibility to profoundly enhance our understanding of dental, oral, and craniofacial diseases and conditions.
<p>Douglas Sheeley, ScD, has been selected to be the deputy director of NIDCR. Dr. Sheeley is an accomplished researcher, educator, and leader who has been with NIH for more than 17 years. He will join the institute on October 16.</p>
Every weekday morning for the past year, dental students Jason Berglund and John Le depart their dorm-like residence on the NIH campus, walk 5 minutes to their respective labs in NIDCR’s Building 30, and dive into the day’s tasks.
Despite remarkable advances in recent decades, cancer often remains an elusive foe. A major reason is treatment resistance—when a tumor no longer responds to a chemotherapy drug—coupled with metastasis, in which the cancer spreads to other parts of the body. Most cancer-related deaths are caused by metastases.
<p>NIDCR announces two new cooperative agreements aimed at developing resources and strategies for regenerating dental, oral, and craniofacial (DOC) tissues that have been damaged by disease or injury.</p>
The body’s barrier sites, such as the skin, mouth and intestines, are continually exposed to potentially harmful foreign substances and infectious agents, and they are also home to a diverse array of harmless microbes called commensal microorganisms.