Founded in 2022, the Center for Innovation and Translation is an exciting new venture driving clinical research partnerships to support the oral and overall health of people in the United States and beyond.
In support of the Dugoni School’s purpose to help people live healthy lives, and as part of the Preventive and Restorative Dentistry Department, the center brings together internal and external collaborators to develop innovation and translate clinical research into practice.
The Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry’s location in the San Francisco Bay Area puts it at the heart of innovation across many fields, including biotechnology, big data, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies of all kinds.
The center aims to be a base for both commercial and noncommercial academic-driven activities to help turn ideas into reality.
Building Partnerships to Advance Clinical Research, Support Oral Health and Help People Live Healthy Lives
Goals
The Center's goals are to:
- Facilitate small pilot innovative activities and clinical studies to drive evidence for larger, better informed and more significant grant applications for translational and clinical research.
- Continue and expand commercial collaborations for showcasing innovation and serial sponsored clinical research studies.
- Engage current faculty in innovation and clinical research projects of any and all varieties, building this research culture into the clinical workforce.
- Serve as home for the Dugoni School’s “Biobank” to facilitate a whole new era of patient sampling and clinical assessment and investigation for global academic and commercial access. Work will include big-data analysis to find links between oral and general health; use of salivary diagnostics to improve our ability to diagnose and treat oral and systemic conditions; research into salivary biomarkers through metagenomic analysis; and other studies of the oral microbiome.
- Expand practice-based research and innovative activities by engaging our alumni community.
- Launch multi-center clinical studies funded either by commercial companies or noncommercial entities such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Support scientific value and income generation in parallel through clinical research studies funded and sponsored by commercial companies or funded by the company and sponsored by the dental school.
Our Location:
The Center for Innovation and Translation
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155 Fifth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
If you have questions about clinical research activities or advisory board involvement, or would like to learn more, please contact the faculty listed below.
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