Future Research Initiatives (Concept Clearances)

Concepts represent early planning stages for initiatives in which NIDCR seeks to support research in an understudied and significant area of science. Council approval does not guarantee that a concept will become a program announcement (PA), request for applications (RFA), or request for proposals (RFP). NIDCR bases this determination on scientific and programmatic priorities balan​ced with the amount of funds available.

September 2024

• Digital Twins for Advancing Innovation and Optimizing Clinical Outcomes in Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial (DOC) Medicine
• Community Engaged Research to Advance Oral Health Intervention Models for Racial/Ethnic Minority HIV/AIDS Populations
• Integration of Medically Necessary Prevention, Treatment, and Monitoring of Oncologic-related Oral, Dental, and Craniofacial Complications

January 2024

• Reissuance of NIDCR Small Grant Program for New Investigators (R03)

September 2023

• Advancing HIV/AIDS and Oral Health Research
• 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)

September 2022

• Chronic Inflammation of the Oral Cavity - An Agent for Oral Mucosal Disease
• Understanding Persistent Oral Human Papillomavirus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus co-infection and Its Role with Oropharyngeal Cancer Induction
• Developing Salivary Components to Restore Oral Health

May 2022

• HEAL Initiative: Oral Complications Arising from Pharmacotherapies to Treat Opioid Use Disorders

September 2021

• Advancing HIV/AIDS Research at the Intersection of Mental and Oral Health
• Characterizing Novel Mechanisms to Advance the Science of Behavior Change in Oral Health
• Data-Driven Tools to Accelerate the Clinical Translation of Novel Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Biomaterials
• The Functional Oral Microbiome
• In utero Treatments of Congenital Dental and Craniofacial Disorders Using Precision Medicine Approaches
• Oral Health Promotion Using Technologies Outside the Dental Setting
• Reissue: NIDCR-CTSA Clinical and Translational Science Training Partnership Program

May 2021

• Conducting Dental Practice-Based Research in Dental Schools to Provide Clinical Research Experience and Educational Opportunities
• NIDCR Dentist Scientist Career Transition Award for Intramural Investigators
• NIDCR Dual Degree Dentist Scientist Pathway to Independence Award

January 2021

• Reissuance of NIDCR Clinical Trial Planning and Implementation Grant Program

September 2020

• COVID-19 Research
• NIDCR Dual Degree Dentist-Scientist Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award
• Research Enhancement Program (REAP) for Health Professional Schools and Graduate Schools (R15 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
• Targeting Upstream Social Determinants of Health
• Understanding Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection, Acquisition, and Persistence in People Living with HIV

May 2020

• NIDCR Award for Sustaining Outstanding Achievement in Research (SOAR) 
• Deconstructing TMJD Classifiers at the Single Cell Level