October 14, 2016
Ophir Klein, MD, PhD, has been awarded one of two inaugural grants from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) that are meant to encourage long-term ambitious and innovative research.
Klein, chair of the Division of Craniofacial Anomalies at UC San Francisco and the Charles J. Epstein Endowed Chair in Human Genetics, received one of two new Sustaining Outstanding Achievement in Research (SOAR) awards from the NIDCR of the National Institutes of Health. The grant is to support his research on the regenerative properties of craniofacial and dental stem cells.