Awarded Funding

2020

Prof Richard Watt

Lancet Global Oral Health Inequalities Commission

Prof Andrew Smith and Prof Francesco D’Aiuto

Unravelling the “mouth-gut axis” and its association with the development of concurrent periodontitis and inflammatory

Prof Dave Spratt and Prof Stefano Fedele

Assessment of the risk of environmental COVID contamination during non-aerosol generating dental procedures

2019

Prof Francesco D’Aiuto

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) use in peri-implant inflammation

Prof Andrew Smith

Dissecting the immunological mechanisms of associated with orofacial granulomatosis and Crohn’s disease

2018

Prof Richard Watt

Fellowship to Dr Renato Venturelli: Development and testing of oral health preventive interventions

Prof Joanna Zakrewska

Advanced neuroimaging to study the central pain pathways in trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux) pre and post-microvascular decompression

Prof Andreas Demosthenous

LEGEND - Detection of oral cancer using electrical impedance spectroscopy

Prof Francesco D'Aiuto

Fellowship to Dr Yago Leira: Impact of periodontitis on systemic health

Prof Andrew Smith

Do changes in the environment alter the oral microbiome?

Prof Anne Young

SMART composites for restoration of children’s teeth

Contingency funding awards

Dr Sara Ghoreishizadeh and Prof Francesco D'Aiuto

Smart mouthguard for continuous monitoring of intraoral pH

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