Understanding Persistent Oral Human Papillomavirus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Co-infection and Its Role with Oropharyngeal Cancer Induction (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Understanding Persistent Oral Human Papillomavirus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Co-infection and Its Role with Oropharyngeal Cancer Induction (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) is sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). Understanding Persistent Oral Human Papillomavirus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Co-infection and Its Role with Oropharyngeal Cancer Induction (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) is sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial R…

Join Dr. Eric Everett for the Pre-registration Deadline > IADR/LAR General Session > Pre-Registration Deadline ## NIDCR Advisory Council Meeting Videocas tThe 233 rd session of the National Dental and Craniofacial Research Council will be held on Tuesday, May 16 . The open session of the meeting will start at 10 a. m.

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Highlights of the upcoming meeting will include Rena D’Souza’s Director’s report and presentations by Patricia Brennan, Director of the National Library of Medicine on Digital NIH – a strategic vision for advancing science and scientific support through information technology, Lillian Shum, Director of the Division of Extramural Research on The Work of [NIDCR] Program officers, and guest speaker Nisha D’Silva , University of Michigan on Oral Cancer and Nerves: Mutual beneficiaries .

There will be a live videocast of the open session available for remote access at: https://videocast. nih. gov/watch=49212.

NIDCR will not be taking questions or comments live, but comments and questions can be sent to: NIDCRCouncilMail@nidcr. nih. gov until May 31 for email response.

An agenda for the meeting can be found at: www. nidcr. nih.

gov/about-us/advisory- committees/advisory-council/may-2023 # NIDCR 75 th Anniversary Kickoff Symposium Join NIDCR as it celebrates its 75 th birthday with a series of activities to commemorate its scientific achievements and articulate a vision for the future. The next event will be the 75 th Anniversary Kickoff Symposium on June 27 at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.

Additional details are available on the NIDCR 75 th Anniversary webpage . Check back ## Ask Me Anything with Eric Everett ## Johns Hopkins Global Health Systems Summer Institute The Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is hosting a Global Health Systems Summer Institute from June 5 – 23, 2023 .

Participants can choose from 23 short-term global courses (mostly online) on the topics of global health technology and innovation, health economics, primary health care, global health entrepreneurship, health systems strengthening, the private sector and global health, health systems management, health policy, health financing, and more. View the complete schedule and View Information on tuition and how to register.

## Translational Research ## Earn Hundreds of CE Credits from the AADOCR/CADR Annual ## Meeting Recordings until July 1 5Recordings from the 52 nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the AADOCR, which was held in conjunction with the 47 th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, are now online. Meeting attendees have free, unlimited access to all recorded sessions until July 15, 2023 .

AADOCR members who were unable to attend the live meeting can still access the session recordings at a significantly discounted rate. Visit www. aadocr.

org/23aaamapp access the recordings as a registered attendee. For more access instructions, view the online video tuorial . View presentations and slides from our all scientific content, including three Distinguished Lecture Series speakers, 38 symposia, and over one hundred interactive talks.

At the conclusion of many of the recorded sessions, users may take a brief quiz to earn ADA CERP credit. A total of 360. 25 on demand Continuing Education hours are available from this meeting!

Questions? Email us at memberservice@iadr. og Are You an Engineer, Data Scientist, or Computer Scientist?

The Data and Technology Advancement National Service Scholar Program, organized by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, seeks and supports experienced data and computer scientists and engineers to tackle challenging biomedical data problems with the potential for substantial public health impact. Each year, projects are selected from proposals submitted by NIH institutes for the applicants to apply for.

NIDCR’s project is among the 13 that are selected this year. The application for the program is open here until Monday, May 15 ## Select Your Next Leaders!

Volunteer leadership opportunities are currently available in the following areas of governance: AADOCR Vice President, AADOCR Treasurer, and AADOCR Representative to the AADOCR/IADR Publications Committee Any AADOCR member may nominate an individual, or you may self-nominate for these positions.

Nominees must have had prior service to AADOCR as a Section, Group or Network Officer, or as a Councilor, Committee Chair, or Committee Member. Visit www. aadocr.

org/AADOCR-Nominations to learn more and submit a nomination. Submissions must be received by August 1, 2023. The IADR Board of Directors is seeking nominees for the position of IADR Vice-president (2025-2026).

Submissions must be received by August 1, 2023 . Additional information is available at www. iadr.

org/IADR-Nominations . All AADOCR Sections are seeking nominees to serve as officers in 2024. Please visit www.

aadocr. org/AADOCR-Section-Nomination for additional information about the specific vacancies for your Section and apply by June 16, 2023 . Information on available committee vacancies, descriptions of committee duties, and instructions on how to submit your candidacy for a committee appointment are available at www.

aadocr. org/AADOCRCommittees . The deadline for applications for committee appointments is August 1, 2023.

Scientific Group/Network Officers All IADR Scientific Groups/Networks (SG/N) are collecting nominations for officers. Go to www. iadr.

org/Group-Network-Nomination to view vacancies and submit a nomination by June 16, 2023 . Self-nominations are welcome. A detailed description of the roles and responsibilities of each SG/N officer position can be found on pages 5-6 of the SG/N Governing Handbook .

All officers have fiduciary responsibility for their Network, including the allocation of funds raised by dues for research activities. Self-nominations are encouraged! However, if you nominate a candidate other than yourself, please make sure the candidate has accepted the nomination prior to submission.

For more information and to submit a nomination, visit: www. iadr. org/Group- ## HSRA Launches “A Healthy Mouth for Every Body” Campaign Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently launched a new oral health literacy and education campaign called the “ Healthy Mouth for Every Body .

” It provides a variety of materials to help the public learn more about oral health, including how to take good care of your oral health at home and the importance of seeing a dentist regularly for a checkup. # AADOCR Strides in Science ## Jessica A. Scoffield, Ph.

D. “This community has been a valuable asset for my professional development and has given me opportunities to serve in leadership roles that may not have been accessible to me elsewhere. Joining AADOCR proved to be very beneficial in facilitating my research transition and setting me up for long-term success in academia.

” Read the full interview. Earn CE Credits at the IADR Webinar at the IADR Webinar & CE Traditional Medicine to Relieve The Next Generation in Regeneration - Bioengineering-driven Approaches Optimal Conduct and Report of Randomized Controlled Trials in Cariology ## Submit a Webinar Proposal AADOCR is currently accepting proposals for webinar ideas for 2023.

Webinar proposals are subject to review and approval by the appropriate IADR committee. Webinar content should be organized around a cutting-edge topic and planned to be no more than 60 minutes (including a Q&A/discussion period). Any requests for additional time outside of the standard allotment of 60 minutes must be made at the time of submission for the committee to evaluate.

For more information and to submit your proposal, visit: www. iadr. org/form/webinar- ## Show Your Support with AADOCR Gear AADOCR represents you—the multidisciplinary scientists who work every day to advance dental, oral, and craniofacial research.

Show your support with style! Tune in to the 2023 Osteo Science Foundation Webinar Series The Osteo Science Foundation will host a series of webinars throughout 2023. Options for Bony and Soft Tissue Reconstruction in the Maxillofacial Region ,presented by Dr. Kevin Arce.

Attendees will be eligible to receive continuing education credit upon completion of the webinar. To learn more and to register, visit: https://www. osteoscience.

org/elearning / list of NIH funding announcements, visit: grants. nih. gov/funding/index.

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Notices of Funding Opportunity NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Release date: April 03, 2023 NIDCR Prospective Observational or Biomarker Validation Study Cooperative Agreement (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Release date: April 03, 2023 Diagnostic Centers of Excellence (X01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Release date: April 06, 2023 Understanding Persistent Oral Human Papillomavirus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Co-infection and Its Role with Oropharyngeal Cancer Induction (R01 Clinical Trial Release date: April 07, 2023 Understanding Persistent Oral Human Papillomavirus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Co-infection and Its Role with Oropharyngeal Cancer Induction (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Release date: April 07, 2023 Request for Information (RFI): Food is Medicine Research Opportunities Release date: April 11, 2023 Notice of Change in Funding Opportunity Purpose of NIDCR Small Research Grants for Analyses of Existing Genomics Data (PAR-23-132) Release date: April 14, 2023 Emergency Awards: HEAL Initiative-Early-Stage Discovery of New Pain and Opioid Use Disorder Targets Within the Understudied Druggable Proteome (R21 Clinical Trial Not Release date: April 14, 2023 Strengthening Research Opportunities for NIH Grants (STRONG): Structured Institutional Needs Assessment and Action Plan Development for Resource Limited Institutions (RLIs) (UC2 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Release date: April 20, 2023 Emergency Awards: HEAL Initiative: Translational Science Career Enhancement Awards for Early and Mid-career Investigators (K18 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) Release date: April 20, 2023 Interventions to expand cancer screening and preventive services to ADVANCE health in populations that experience health disparities (R01, Clinical Trial Required) Release date: April 20, 2023 Notice of Special Interest Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): EXposome in Autoimmune Disease Collaborating Teams PLANning Awards (EXACT-PLAN) (Clinical Trials Not Allowed) Release date: April 14, 2023 NIDCR Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship to Enhance Diversity in Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Research Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

Rapid Funding for COVID-19 Research Clinical to basic research studies, many are conducted by the National Dental Practice- Based Research Network (PBRN).

New Opportunities for Advancing Pain Science Recognizing the urgent need to improve the management of pain, the Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposals from the President, House, and Senate each provide increased funding for pain research to several NIH Institutes and Centers, including the NIDCR. NIDCR Institutional K12 NIDCR Dental Specialty and Ph. D.

Programs The NIDCR Dental Specialty and Ph. D. Program (DSPP) supports institutional research career development (K12) programs that propose to develop outstanding clinician scientists (K12 “Scholars”) through an integrated program of advanced clinical training in a recognized dental specialty.

Three universities currently offer the NIDCR Dental Specialty and Ph. D. Program: University of California, Los Angeles Dental Specialty and Ph.

D. Program (UCLA University of Michigan K12 DSPP Accelerating Interventions for Craniofacial Diseases and Disorders via DSPP State University of New York at Buffalo K12 DSPP, Buffalo Oral-Research and Specialty Training Program (BORST) Visit the NIA’s Grants and Funding web portal and view the current NIA funding We are saddened by the loss of Arthur Veis, longtime member of IADR/AADOCR, who passed away on April 23.

Veis was a professor emeritus in Cell & Developmental Biology at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph. D. His research focused on the mechanisms of biomineralization in bones and teeth, and the role of non-collagenous “SIBLING” proteins in regulation of mineral placement in collagen matrices.

Read the full obituary here . Support New Investigators! Donate to the AADOCR New Investigator Research Development Fund!

Once endowed, this award will recognize original research by new investigators and will stimulate basic research in all dental, oral, and craniofacial disciplines. One award per year will be presented in the amount of at least $10,000. This must be put towards the candidate’s research, the establishment of research infrastructure, the completion of a research project, or preparing research for publication.

AADOCR has reached 27% of its goal to fully fund this endowment and to begin awarding new investigators. The Science Advocate is a monthly e -newsletter for AADOCR members. If you have items you would like to include, please forward them to scienceadvocate@aadocr.

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