The UCSF School of Dentistry and UCSF’s Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy led the nation in federal biomedical research funding for the second year in a row in 2014, with UCSF as a whole receiving the most of any public institution recipient and the second-most overall in funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The UCSF School of Dentistry has been the top recipient of NIH biomedical research funding among dental institutions nationwide for 23 years, and last year led the No.2 recipient, the University of Alabama, Birmingham, by nearly $4 million:
- UCSF School of Dentistry: $15.5 million
- University of Alabama, Birmingham: $11.8 million
- UCLA: $11.1 million
- University of Michigan: $10.9 million
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: $9.6 million
Within UCSF Dentistry, a total of 25 funded investigators represented all departments within the school: Cell and Tissue Biology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orofacial Sciences and Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences.
The school’s top-funded investigators were:
Stuart Gansky, MS, DrPH (Center to Address Disparities in Children’s Oral Health – CAN DO) - Oral health research, health disparities/health inequities research, individual- and cluster-randomized clinical trials, health literacy, and related methodological and analytic issues, especially in children and their caregivers, focusing mostly on clinic to community translational research (T2/T3) projects, including studies of caries prevention; tobacco use prevention and cessation; health promotion; and chronic pain/temporomandibular disorders.
Jon Levine, MD, PhD - Taking a multidisciplinary approach involving molecular, biochemical, in vitro and in vivo electrophysiological and behavioral techniques to evaluate mechanisms underlying pain and analgesia.
Daniel Fried, PhD - Developing minimally invasive hard tissue procedures such as image and spectral guided laser ablation along with optical and spectroscopic diagnostic tools such as optical coherence tomography and near-IR imaging.
Andrei Goga, MD, PhD - Understanding how specific oncogenes alter the cell cycle, miRNA and metabolic signaling pathways to drive tumorigenesis.
Carol Gross, PhD - Using genetic, biochemical and systems approaches to study regulatory mechanisms of E. coli stress responses, protein interactions in the bacterial transcription apparatus, and genome-wide control of gene expression.
Ophir Klein, MD, PhD - Understanding how organs form in the embryo and how adult stem cells contribute to renewal. Using mouse models to understand how teeth can renew in various species of mammals, how the intestinal lining regenerates, and how organs can heal themselves after damage or injury.
“It’s difficult to overstate the significance of this achievement,” says John D.B. Featherstone, Dean of the School of Dentistry. ”It positively it reflects on all of us, and on everything we do to fulfill our mission: Advancing oral, craniofacial, and public health through excellence in education, discovery, and patient-centered care.”
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UCSF Schools Lead Nation Again In NIH Biomedical Research Funds