Response Requested: NIDCR Requests Input on Proposed Research Initiatives

Announcements

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) requests your input on proposed concepts (research initiatives) presented at the September 2023 National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council meeting. The initiatives are listed below. To read the full description and provide input, please visit: NIDCR Requests Input on FY2024 Proposed Research Initiatives

Initiatives: 

• Accelerating Product Excellence in Innovation and for Clinical Adoption (APEx)
• Advancing HIV/AIDS and Oral Health Research
• Bacteriophage Therapy: Tipping the Balance to Oral Health
• Community-Based Participatory Research Consortium: Advancing DAta and Practice Transformation (ADAPT) for Caries Equity
• Determining the Tri-directional Relationship Between Oral Health, Nutrition, and Comprehensive Health
• NIDCR Mentoring Networks for Underrepresented and Early-Career Investigators (Reissue)
• Organs-on-a-Chip in Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (DOC-OoCs)

The Concept Clearance Process

NIDCR supports research in significant as well as understudied areas of science, identifying broad research topic areas or themes that are developed into concepts. These concepts represent the early planning stages of research initiatives. Proposed research initiatives communicate future research goals to the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, Congress, and the public. NIDCR invites input about each concept’s merit from research and clinical practice communities, industry, interested organizations, and the public at large.

Please note that these initiatives are not a complete picture of the Institute’s planned research portfolio for the year indicated, nor do they signal that themes highlighted during a previous year have been abandoned. The proposed FY 2024 initiatives will be integrated into this larger landscape as they are considered for funding opportunity announcements.

Comments are due by November 13, 2023.

Thank you for your input.