Dental Research Funding: NIH Grants

• 107NIH projects (fiscal year 2025)
• $56.8 millionawarded (fiscal year 2025)

Each number has its full source under its own list below.

1. 1The National Dental Pbrn Administrative And Resource CenterUniversity Of Alabama At Birmingham · fiscal year 2025$3.2 million
2. 2Making Caries Prevention Smart: Adaptive Interventions For Precision Dental Medicine In SchoolsUniversity Of Pennsylvania · fiscal year 2025$3 million
3. 3National Dental Practice-based Research Network: Coordinating CenterKaiser Foundation Research Institute · fiscal year 2025$1.9 million
4. 4Predicting Caries Lesion Patterns And Trajectories In Underserved Children, From Infancy To Early Adolescence, In Primary Healthcare…University Of Michigan At Ann Arbor · fiscal year 2025$1.7 million
5. 5Virtual Twin-powered Rapid Development Of Bioactive Multifunctional Dental RestorativesAda Forsyth Institute, Inc. · fiscal year 2025$1.2 million
6. 6Phase Ii, Proof-of-concept Randomized Controlled Trial To Evaluate Dental Caries Preventive Effects Of Fluoridated Bottle WaterUniv Of North Carolina Chapel Hill · fiscal year 2025$1.2 million
7. 7A Multiscale Approach To Develop And Apply Fluoride Efflux Inhibitors To Reverse Oral Dysbiosis And Eliminate Early Childhood CariesUniversity Of Michigan At Ann Arbor · fiscal year 2025$1.1 million
8. 8Establishing Readiness Of Dental Professionals In Practice-based Research And Inter-professional CareIndiana University Indianapolis · fiscal year 2025$1 million
9. 9Enhancing Dental And Craniomaxillofacial Surgery Outcomes With Cost-effective And Scalable Animal-free Amino Acid-based Membranes For…Matregenix · fiscal year 2025$976,000
10. 10Sensory Adapted Dental Environments To Enhance Oral Care For Children With And Without Dental Fear And AnxietyUniversity Of Southern California · fiscal year 2025$954,605

Source: NIH RePORTER, NIH-funded projects and award amounts, fiscal year 2025. Retrieved 12 Nov 2026.

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