Awards & Sponsored Funding

UFCD Seed Grants

Ann Progulske-Fox, PhD, Distinguished Professor - Oral Biology "Periodontal bacterial infection induced periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease", $10,000.00
Joseph Riley, PhD, Associate Professor - Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science"Role of the endogenous opioid system underlying modulation of experimental pain", $9,930.00

Allison C. Harris, BS, DMD, Orthodontics Resident & Joyce Morris-Wiman, BA, PhD, Research Assistant Professor - Department of Orthodontics "Does an Altered Inflammatory Response Have a Role in Delayed Masseter Repair?", $5,000.00
Jennifer M. Watson, PhD, Research Assistant Professor - Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science "Knowledge of Preventive Behaviors for Early Childhood Caries", $10,000.00
Fong Wong, BSD, DDS, CAGS, MSD, Assistant Professor - Prosthodontics "Systemic Effects of Cancer on Thermal Pain Sensitivity in Mice", $10,000.00

Robert S. Attia, BS, Dental Student & Ammon B. Peck, BS, MS, PhD, Professor - Department of Oral Biology "Quantitative Comparison of Sjögren’s Syndrome and Normal Saliva Proteomes", $7,600.00
Luciana M. Shaddox, DDS, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor - Periodontology "The Influence of Periodontal Therapy on Metabolic and Immunological Control of the Type II Diabetic Patient", $10,000.00
Shannon M. Pop, PhD, Assistant Professor - Periodontology "Diabetes mellitus and expression of in vivo induced antigens by oral pathogens", $10,000.00

Valeria V. Gordan, DDS, Associate Professor - Operative Dentistry "Arginine hydrolysis in human dental plaque and saliva as predictor of caries risk", $10,000.00
Nicole Grieshaber, PhD, Research Assistant Professor - Oral Biology "Identification of small regulatory RNAs in P. gingivalis", $10,000.00
Joseph Katz, DMD, Professor - Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences and Myriam Bélanger, PhD, Research Assistant Professor - Oral Biology (Microbiology) "P. gingivalis interaction with placental tissues, in vitro and animal studies", $10,000.00
Albert O. Adegbembo, BDS, DDPH, MSc, FRCD(C), Assistant Scientist - Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science "An exploratory study of trust and dental anxiety in dentistry", $5,000.00
Clay Walker, PhD, Professor - Oral Biology "Correlation of subgingival bacterial species with MMPS", $10,000.00

Ann Progulske-Fox, PhD, Professor and Director - Oral Biology "Host Response & P. Gingivalis Virulence in Pregnancy", $10,000.00
Fong Wong, DDS, MSD, Assistant Professor - Prosthodontics "Contribution of SP/NK-1 Receptor Signaling to Nociceptive Processing in Mice", $17,000.00
Henrietta L. Logan, PhD, Professor - Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science "Markers of late effects of head and neck cancer", $10,000.00

Ivar A.Mjör, BDS, MSD, MS, DrOdont, Eminent Scholar - Operative Dentistry "Re-engineering Clinical Dental Research: Response to NIH/NIDCR RFA DE05-006", $12,500.00
Enrique Bimstein, CD, Visiting Professor - Pediatrics "Histological Characteristics of Periodontitis in Teeth of Children and Adolescents", $10,000.00
Jianguo Gu, PhD, Associate Professor - Neuroscience, Oral Surgery "SP-Neuropeptidergic Modulatory System In Nociceptive Pathways", $10,000.00
Frank Catalanotto, DMD, Professor and Enrique Bimstein, CD, Visting Professor - Pediatrics "The Influence of Taste Sensitivity on Food Intake and Oral Health", $10,000.00
Chen-Guang Yu, PhD, MD, Research Assistant Professor - Orthodontics/Neuroscience, "Effects of ERK1/ERK2 siRNA on Spinal Injury Pain", $10,000.00
Martin Handfield, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor - Oral Biology "Characterizing Bacterial Virulence Determinants with Human Microarrays", $10,000.00