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International Association for Dental Research and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Announce Innovation in Oral Care Awards Program
http://dentalresearch.org/awards/gsk.html

Deadline: October 31, 2004

The International Association for Dental Research ( http://dentalresearch.org/ ) and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare invite applications for the 2005 Innovation in Oral Care Awards.

These awards offer opportunities for investigators to conduct dental research with a direct impact on oral healthcare. The awards are also intended to inspire creative and novel research in oral care, above and beyond the bounds of traditional dental research.

Competitive awards up to $75,000 will be provided to recipients to advance oral care programs that support the development of innovative and novel compounds, biomaterials, or devices that ultimately can be used at the public health level. Examples of areas of interest could include, but are not be limited to, inhibition or removal of biofilms, etc. adhering to natural or artificial surfaces; modification of those surfaces to inhibit biofilms and other deposits, stains, and odors; adhesives for removable prosthetic devices; inhibition of tooth surface loss and gingival recession, and amelioration of their effects; and counteracting the oral effects of dry mouth, systemic illness, hormonal disturbances, or physiological aging.

The principal investigator listed in the application must be a current member of, or at the time of submission have made bona fide application to, IADR. To fulfill the quest for innovation, proposals should be collaboratively sponsored by at least one researcher whose principal expertise is in an area of biotechnology other than a dental science.

Full program details, including the application form, are available through the IADR Web site.

NIDCR Clinical Pilot Data Grant
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAr-03-043.html

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) announces a grant program to support the collection of clinical pilot data to be used in preparing applications for definitive Phase III clinical trials. These pilot data grants should focus on research that is particularly innovative and/or potentially of high impact to craniofacial, oral, and dental research. High impact research may involve small feasibility studies in which the technological, methodological, or theoretical approach to a problem lacks sufficient preliminary data. This grant is not intended to support small pilot clinical trials. The applications must develop new research relevant to the NIDCR mission in craniofacial, oral, and dental research.

NIDCR Clinical Trial Planning Grant
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAr-03-042.html

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) is committed to identifying effective preventive, diagnostic and treatment approaches to craniofacial, oral and dental diseases and disorders that will improve health by supporting well-executed clinical trials. The NIDCR announces a grant program to support the planning for definitive Phase III multicenter clinical trials.

Significant planning is often required before submitting an application to conduct a multicenter, randomized clinical trial. At the time of submission, applications requesting support for multicenter clinical trials are expected to provide detailed information regarding the study's rationale, design, analytic techniques, protocols and procedures, facilities and environment, organizational structure, and collaborative arrangements. This information is best conveyed in a well-documented Manual of Procedures (MOP), the development of which typically represents a costly and time-consuming activity. The Clinical Trial Planning Grant, providing up to $100,000 in annual direct costs for up to two years, is an NIDCR support mechanism designed to facilitate activities central to the refinement of the trial's protocol and procedures and the development of a detailed MOP.

This Program Announcement replaces PAR-99-157.

Office of Research Development
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DE-06-003.html

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) invites Cooperative Agreement Applications (U01) to support the technological advances needed for rapid, reliable, non-invasive identification of biomarker signature patterns in saliva indicative of local and systemic health status, particularly in regards to early diagnosis of diseases. The focus of such diagnostic technologies must be in disease areas in which saliva based diagnostics can have a major impact. The specific goals of the initiative are to: i) support the development of functional, miniature, portable, self-contained, easy-to-use diagnostic prototype devices for simultaneous multi-analyte detection; and ii) accelerate commercialization of such systems

Full program details, including the application form, are available through the link listed above.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DE-06-007.html

This initiative will encourage observational clinical research and clinical trials on osseointegrated dental implants regarding: 1) outcomes when using various surgical and prosthetic protocols, 2) assessment of the effects of systemic diseases on success rate, 3) quality of life and patient preferences for dental implants compared to other prosthetic methods for restoring the dentition, and 4) needs in children who have congenitally missing teeth or suffer from developmental disabilities.

Full program details, including the application form, are available through the link listed above.