The New Zealand Dental Association and Manatū Hauora Ministry of Health (MoH) are key supporters of our dental and oral health research, through the annual New Zealand Dental Research Foundation and MoH Oral Health Research grant rounds.
In this year’s rounds, a total of $160,247 has been awarded for projects led by our researchers.
These grants will fund new research into conditions such as oral cancer, dental bruxism and the link between diabetes and dental pulp disease, and new international collaborations in the area of dental ceramics.
Funding has also been secured for critical equipment which will underpin the dental assessments of the Dunedin Study, as well as ongoing cell and tissue culture research projects within the SJWRI .
As always, we thank the New Zealand Dental Research Foundation and the Ministry of Health for their continued support of our dental and oral health research.
New Zealand Dental Research Foundation
https://www.nzda.org.nz/about-us/research-and-grants/nzda-research-foundation
In the 2023 NZDRF funding round, a total of $112,821 in funding has been awarded for research projects led by our researchers.
Lead investigator | Other named investigators | Project Title | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
Jonathan Broadbent | Mauro Farella, Wendy Jansen van Vuuren, Ludwig Jansen van Vuuren, Sunyoung Ma | Oral health to age 52: equipment grant application | $15,000 |
Joanne Choi | Xiaoyun (Abby) Liu (PhD), Nick Heng, Andrew Cameron (Griff), Ketil Hegestrom (Oslo) | Accuracy and bur wear of multiple milling machines for dental ceramics: A multi- centre study | $15,000 ($5,000 from DIGRA) |
Mauro Farella | Daniel Waller (DCD1), Fiona Firth | Sleep and awake bruxism: Are they associated? | $10,131 |
Guangzhao (Simon) Guan | Peter Li Mei, Richard Cannon, Dawn Coates | The role of the Rho- associated kinase/ROCK signalling pathway in the nano-characteristics and nano-mechanics of oral cancer cells | $14,976 |
Trudy Milne | Dawn Coates, Warwick Duncan | Thermo Scientific Heracell™ VIOS 160i Tri-Gas CO2 incubator with O2 control | $14,279 |
Benedict Seo | Muhammad Aiman Mohd Nizar (DCD2), Haizal Hussaini, Qing Sun, Paul Cooper, Alison Rich | Fibroblasts in Oral Lichen Planus: Part 2 - Gene Expression | $13,535 |
Benedict Seo | Ayesha Sameera (PhD), Haizal Hussaini, Qing Sun, Paul Cooper, Alison Rich | Inflammation and the unfolded protein response in the pathogenesis and treatment of oral lichen planus | $15,000 |
Andrew Tawse-Smith | William Cho (DCD1), Sunyoung Ma, KC Li | Efficacy of surgical and non- surgical implant surface decontamination methods and the impact of bony defect configuration: an in vitro study | $14,900 ($10,000 from CDET) |
Ministry of Health Oral Health Research Fund
https://www.nzda.org.nz/about-us/research-and-grants/oral-health-research-fund
Projects led by our researchers have been awarded a total of $47,426 in this year’s Ministry of Health Oral Health Research funding round.
Lead investigator | Other named investigators | Project Title | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
Lara Friedlander | Rishi Pavaskar (DCD1), Trudy Milne, Paul Cooper, Haizal Hussaini | Type 2 diabetes and the dental pulp -Angiogenesis and the role of neuropeptides in response to caries and inflammation? | $15,000 |
Deanna Beckett | Jonathan Broadbent, Carolina Loch, Ben Wheeler (WCH), Keith Gordon (Chem), Sara Miller (Chem) | Dental consequences of Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and infancy | $32,426 |
Key
- Named investigators
- are Sir John Walsh Research Institute, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago unless noted.
- Italicized names
- are doctoral research students (PhD or DClinDent).
- CDET
- Continuing Dental Education Trust (Auckland) Award
- Chem
- Department of Chemistry, University of Otago
- DCD
- Doctor of Clinical Dentistry student
- DIGRA
- Dental Industry Group of New Zealand Research Association
- Griff
- Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
- Oslo
- Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
- PhD
- Doctor of Philosophy student
- WCH
- Womens and Childrens Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago