National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research activities

During the 85th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, meeting in conjunction with the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research, convening March 21-24 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, one of the National Institutes of Health, will held numerous programs designed to enhance research efforts and improve the dental and oral health of the public. A summary follows:

Tuesday, March 20

10:30 am – 12 Noon, NIDCR T32 Training Directors’ Meeting, Room 296

Wednesday, March 21

9:30 am – 11:30 am, NIDCR Trainees’ Poster Session, Rooms 395-396
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, NIDCR Director’s Meeting with Research Trainees and Junior Scientists, Room 398
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Symposium, “Dental School Participation in the NIH Clinical Translational Science Awards (CTSAs)”, Rooms 283-284 (jointly sponsored by the NIDCR, NIH, and the National Center for Research Resources)

Description: In 2003, Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH, convened a series of meetings to chart a "roadmap" for medical research in the 21st century. It identifies the most compelling opportunities in three main areas: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, and re-engineering the clinical research enterprise. The NIH recently announced the launch of a national consortium that will transform how clinical and translational research is conducted, ultimately enabling researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients. This new consortium, funded through Clinical & Translational Science Awards (CTSAs), begins with funding 12 academic health centers (AHCs) throughout the nation. The CTSAs are the first systematic change in the US approach to clinical research in 50 years. The CTSAs will serve as discovery engines that will improve health care by applying new scientific advances to real-world practice. The CTSAs are expected to develop new approaches to reach underserved populations, local community organizations, and health-care providers, to ensure that health-care advances are reaching the people who need them. The CTSA consortium is led by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the NIH. Total first-year funding for the awards announced to date is approximately $100 million. When fully implemented in 2012, the initiative is expected to provide a total of $500 million annually to 60 academic health centers. Lawrence Tabak, Director of the NIDCR, will give a brief overview of the NIH Roadmap initiatives, with an emphasis on how dentistry can participate. Andrea Sawczuk will provide an overview of the Roadmap CTSA initiative, and Bruce Pihlstrom will moderate a panel discussion of representatives from CTSA awardees, with a view toward informing the oral health research and education community about the ways in which the dental community has successfully participated in this initiative.

Thursday, March 22

9:00 am – 1:00 pm, Symposium, “Essentials in Grant Writing”, Room 288
10:45 am – 12:15 pm, Workshop, “The SBIR and STTR Programs: A Pathway to Translational Research”, Room 298
10:45 am – 12:15 pm, Workshop, “Introduction to the NIDCR/CDC Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Data Resource Center”, Room 299

Friday, March 23

8:00 am – 8:45 am, Special Presentation, “NIDCR State-of-the-Institute Address”, Larry Tabak, Director, Auditorium A
9:00 am – 10:30 am, Workshop, “Oral Pathogen Sequence Analysis and Comparative Study”, Room 298
9:15 am – 10:45 am, NIDCR Research Training & Career Development Opportunities, Room 399
10:45 am – 12:15 pm, Symposium, “Practice-based Research — What’s It All About?”, Room 295

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