UCSF Leads U.S. Dental Schools in NIH Funding

24 Feb 20216 min read

The UCSF School of Dentistry led all U.S. dental schools last year in funding from the National Institutes of Health. The school joins its sister Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy in the top spot; the School of Nursing ranked third. Read more on UCSF.edu.

Fourteen researchers in the School of Dentistry helmed projects receiving more than $600,000 in NIH funding. They include:

PI	Project Name	Amount
Diane Barber	Roles for Intracellular pH Dynamics in Cancer; Roles for Intracellular pH Dynamics in Cancer	$822,779
Lisa Berens	Centering Pregnancy Oral Health Promotion (CPOP) Clinical Trial	$1,294,962
Jeffrey Bush	Mechanisms of Eph/Ephrin signaling in craniofacial morphogenesis and craniofrontonasal syndrome; Mechanisms of early tracheal specification and morphogenesis; Cellular mechanisms of lip and palate fusion	$1,401,752
Daniel Fried	Optical Methods for Lesion Activity Assessment; Imaging Dental Caries with SWIR Light	$764,751
Stuart Gansky	Coordinating Center to Help Eliminate/Reduce Oral Health Inequalities in Children	$930,586
Andrei Goga	Integrative approach to heterogeneity in breast cancer metastasis; Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms in Cancer; Uncovering Mechanisms of Regulation and Dependency on Fatty Acid Oxidation in MYC-Driven Tumors	$981,186
Stefan Habelitz	Amyloids in Enamel Development; Remineralization carious lesions in dentin using the PILP-approach	$888,647
Ophir Klein	Harnessing natural stem cell-based strategies for mammalian dental renewal; Enamel atlas: systems-level amelogenesis tools at multiple scales; Regulation of organogenesis through regional variations in tissue mechanics; The roles of regional specialization, mechanical forces and epigenetic memory after perturbation and injury of the intestinal stem cell microenvironment; Cellular and molecular control of tooth morphogenesis; The roles of regional specialization, mechanical forces and epigenetic memory after perturbation and injury of the intestinal stem cell microenvironment; Using human intestinal organoids to model IBD pathogenesis	$3,504,637
Sarah Knox	Defining mechanisms driving salivary gland regeneration	$1,055,280
Noelle L'Etoile	Olfactory Memory Acquisition Consolidation and Recall; The Effect of Sleep on Neural Circuit Connections	$1,278,658
Jon Levine	Chronic Chemotherapy Peripheral Neuropathy: Role of Neuroplasticity and Stress; Acute-to-Chronic Transition in Ergonomic Muscle Pain: Nociceptor Mechanisms; Hyaluronan signaling to nociceptors in inflammatory pain	$1,872,978
Elizabeth Mertz	Reducing Oral Health Disparities in Children: Assessing the Multilevel Impact of a Standardized Preventive Dental Care System	$650,447
Licia Selleri	Phenotype-driven approach to understanding the function of craniofacial regulators using IMPC-generated mouse strains	$741,607
Caroline Shiboski	Sjögren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance Next Generation Studies (SICCA-NextGen); Epigenetic and transcriptomic determinants of Sjogren's Syndrome subtypes utilizing data from the Sjogren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA) cohort	$968,582