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The New Zealand Dental Association and Manatū Hauora Ministry of Health (MoH) are key supporters of our dental and oral health research, through the annual New Zealand Dental Research Foundation and MoH Oral Health Research grant rounds.

In this year’s rounds, a total of $160,247 has been awarded for projects led by our researchers.

These grants will fund new research into conditions such as oral cancer, dental bruxism and the link between diabetes and dental pulp disease, and new international collaborations in the area of dental ceramics.

Funding has also been secured for critical equipment which will underpin the dental assessments of the Dunedin Study, as well as ongoing cell and tissue culture research projects within the SJWRI .

As always, we thank the New Zealand Dental Research Foundation and the Ministry of Health for their continued support of our dental and oral health research.

New Zealand Dental Research Foundation

https://www.nzda.org.nz/about-us/research-and-grants/nzda-research-foundation

In the 2023 NZDRF funding round, a total of $112,821 in funding has been awarded for research projects led by our researchers.

Lead investigator

Other named investigators

Project Title

Award

Jonathan Broadbent

Mauro Farella, Wendy Jansen van Vuuren, Ludwig Jansen van Vuuren, Sunyoung Ma

Oral health to age 52: equipment grant application

$15,000

Joanne Choi

Xiaoyun (Abby) Liu (PhD), Nick Heng, Andrew Cameron (Griff), Ketil Hegestrom (Oslo)

Accuracy and bur wear of multiple milling machines for dental ceramics: A multi- centre study

$15,000

($5,000 from DIGRA)

Mauro Farella

Daniel Waller (DCD1), Fiona Firth

Sleep and awake bruxism: Are they associated?

$10,131

Guangzhao (Simon) Guan

Peter Li Mei, Richard Cannon, Dawn Coates

The role of the Rho- associated kinase/ROCK signalling pathway in the nano-characteristics and nano-mechanics of oral cancer cells

$14,976

Trudy Milne

Dawn Coates, Warwick Duncan

Thermo Scientific Heracell™ VIOS 160i Tri-Gas CO2 incubator with O2 control

$14,279

Benedict Seo

Muhammad Aiman Mohd Nizar (DCD2), Haizal Hussaini, Qing Sun, Paul Cooper, Alison Rich

Fibroblasts in Oral Lichen Planus: Part 2 - Gene Expression

$13,535

Benedict Seo

Ayesha Sameera (PhD), Haizal Hussaini, Qing Sun, Paul Cooper, Alison Rich

Inflammation and the unfolded protein response in the pathogenesis and treatment of oral lichen planus

$15,000

Andrew Tawse-Smith

William Cho (DCD1), Sunyoung Ma, KC Li

Efficacy of surgical and non- surgical implant surface decontamination methods and the impact of bony defect configuration: an in vitro study

$14,900

($10,000 from CDET)

Ministry of Health Oral Health Research Fund

https://www.nzda.org.nz/about-us/research-and-grants/oral-health-research-fund

Projects led by our researchers have been awarded a total of $47,426 in this year’s Ministry of Health Oral Health Research funding round.

Lead investigator

Other named investigators

Project Title

Award

Lara Friedlander

Rishi Pavaskar (DCD1), Trudy Milne, Paul Cooper, Haizal Hussaini

Type 2 diabetes and the dental pulp -Angiogenesis and the role of neuropeptides in response to caries and inflammation?

$15,000

Deanna Beckett

Jonathan Broadbent, Carolina Loch, Ben Wheeler (WCH), Keith Gordon (Chem), Sara Miller (Chem)

Dental consequences of Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and infancy

$32,426

Key

Named investigators
are Sir John Walsh Research Institute, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago unless noted.
Italicized names
are doctoral research students (PhD or DClinDent).
CDET
Continuing Dental Education Trust (Auckland) Award
Chem
Department of Chemistry, University of Otago
DCD
Doctor of Clinical Dentistry student
DIGRA
Dental Industry Group of New Zealand Research Association
Griff
Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
Oslo
Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
PhD
Doctor of Philosophy student
WCH
Womens and Childrens Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago
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