Partnerships
DOCTRC and C-DOCTOR
The Translational Resource Center and C-DOCTOR comprise DOCTRC (Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Tissue Regeneration Consortium), in partnership and support from NIDCR. C-DOCTOR is a multi-institutional collaboration involving University of Southern California (USC), UC San Francisco (UCSF), UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, and Stanford University.
Through collaboration between the two resource centers, DOCTRC aims to accelerate clinical adoption of promising technologies by providing the interdisciplinary expertise and resources to guide technologies toward FDA submissions.
DOCTRC website: https://doctrc.org/
C-DOCTOR website: https://c-doctor.org/
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) is the federal government’s lead agency for scientific research on dental, oral and craniofacial health and disease. NIDCR is one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Translational Resource Center is supported in part by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U24DE026915.
NIDCR website: https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/
Initiatives from NIDCR
Oral & Systemic Health Integration Program
Overview
The Oral and Systemic Health Integration Program aims to promote clinical research to advance knowledge in diagnosis, prevention, and management of Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial (DOC) diseases in the context of systemic health. The program supports research that evaluates the interaction between oral health and general health throughout the lifespan considering advances in science and health care integration to investigate promising directions for improving oral and comprehensive health.
DOC Health Disparities Program
Overview
The Dental, Oral, Craniofacial (DOC) Health Disparities Program supports scientifically rigorous, community-engaged research that helps generate scalable, evidence-based strategies to address DOC health disparities in communities to achieve health for all. Despite remarkable improvements in the oral health of Americans, chronic DOC diseases and conditions remain among the most common health problems across the lifespan. The conditions can be particularly prevalent and severe for individuals and communities that face economic or other barriers to health care. Given the complexity of DOC health disparities, inter-disciplinary research teams must collaborate with affected communities/populations for research conceptualization, planning, implementation, and dissemination. Populations/communities disproportionately affected by the burden of dental caries, periodontal disease, and oral and oropharyngeal cancers are of particular concern.
Biomedical Clinical Trials of DOC Conditions Program
Overview
The Biomedical Clinical Trials of Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial (DOC) Conditions Program supports well-designed and well-executed clinical trials (Phase I, II, III, and IV) that test interventions and have the potential to improve DOC health. These trials should provide scientific evidence that can be used for establishing or changing the standard of care, or for consideration of a change in health care policy. To be eligible for NIH funding, all clinical research involving investigational drugs, biologics, devices, or other products regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must comply with all applicable FDA requirements.
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