Research

Welcome from the Associate Dean (Research)
Professor Marc D. McKee

Welcome to the section of the Faculty of Dentistry's website that introduces our appointed academic staff and associate and adjunct members involved in research. The Faculty of Dentistry is committed to continuously developing and improving its research and teaching programs related to oral health. Researchers within our faculty investigate a broad range of important oral health issues at both the clinical and basic science levels, with many interdisciplinary collaborations both within and outside of McGill. Many of our investigators have international reputations and a broad range of research expertise, with major areas of intellectual interest including:

Research Clusters

Affiliated Centres, Institutes and Facilities

For information on the specific research interests and publications of individual faculty members, please see our list of investigators at the left (or below).

Applicants for graduate studies have to be accepted by a supervisor before they will be accepted as a graduate student by the Faculty of Dentistry. We encourage applicants to identify, and directly contact by e-mail, potential supervisors who appear on this page.

Disclaimer: Student and support staff names appearing on the web pages below for each professor have consented in writing to having their names appear on our Dentistry website.

Investigators

Dentistry - Appointed Academic Staff

Dr. Rubens Albuquerque Implant prosthesis Dental implants Bacterial contamination of implants and implant prosthesis Bone healing	Dr. Paul Allison Oral cancer Quality of life Psychosocial determinants of health Clinical epidemiology	Dr. Jake Barralet Biomaterials Drug delivery Tissue regeneration
Dr. Christophe Bedos Public health Access to care Social justice Poverty Qualitative research	Dr. Gary Bennett Analgesics Neuropathy Pain Chemotherapy neuropathy	Dr. Catherine Bushnell Pain mechanisms Neuroimaging Psychological modulation of pain
Dr. Fernando Cervero Neuroscience Neurobiology of pain and hyperalgesia Neurobiology of visceral pain	Dr. Peter J. Chauvin Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Oral Cancer Mucosal diseases Vesiculobullous disorders	Dr. Shahrokh Esfandiari Oral health technology assessment Evidence based dentistry Oral health policy Evidence based decision making Oral public health
Dr. Jocelyne Feine Randomized clinical trials Patient-based outcomes Quality of life Dental implants	Dr. Mervyn Gornitsky Facial pain Saliva Scleroderma Xerostomia	Dr. Mari Kaartinen Bone formation Osteoblast differentiation and signaling Matrix biology Transglutaminase enzymes
Dr. Svetlana Komarova Bone physiology Osteoclast Osteoblast Bioenergetics Mathematical modeling	Dr. Hervé LeMoual Bacterial pathogenesis Host antimicrobial peptides Two-component regulatory systems	Dr. Mary E. Macdonald Vulnerable populations Aboriginal and indigenous health Palliative care and bereavement Communication skills and cultural competency
Dr. Marc D. McKee Biomineralization Bone and tooth biology Extracellular matrix biology Pathologic calcification	Dr. Belinda Nicolau Head and neck cancer Life course epidemiology Periodontal disease Obesity	Dr. Monzur Murshed Transgenic models Bone remodelling Bone mineralization Osteoblastogenesis Arterial calcification
Dr. Dieter P. Reinhardt Extracellular matrix Connective tissue disorders Fibrillins Microfibrils Protein function	Dr. Jean-Marc Retrouvey Osteogenesis imperfecta Orthodontics Education	Dr. Petra Schweinhardt Cerebral pain processing Pain modulation Chronic pain
Dr. Laura Stone Chronic pain Low back pain Behavioral pharmacology	Dr. Maryam Tabrizian Biomaterials Biointerface Biorecognition Regenerative medicine Nanomedicine	Dr. Faleh Tamimi Maxillofacial surgery Biomaterials Restorative dentistry Bone regeneration Dental implants
Dr. Louis Z. G. Touyz Beverages Frangibles Oral-biology Periodontics Oral-medicine	Dr. Simon D. Tran Tissue engineering Stem cell Saliva Regenerative medicine Translational research	Dr. Ana Velly Pain Biomarkers Saliva Epidemiology Cancer
Dr. Jacques Véronneau Caries prediction Caries diagnosis Early childhood caries	Dr. Ji Zhang Glial cell biology Nervous system Immune response Pain Behavior

Dentistry - Associate and Adjunct Members

Dr. Marta Cerruti Surface modifications Biomaterials for soft and hard tissue applications Bio-interface characterization IR, Raman and XPS spectroscopy	Dr. Eduardo Franco cancer epidemiology and prevention screening oral cancer epidemiology HPV infection	Dr. Chantal Galarneau
Dr. Arlette Kolta Mastication Trigeminal system Neurone-glia interactions Electrophysiology Calcium imaging	Dr. Showan N. Nazhat Biopolymers Biodegradable materials Bioactive composites Tissue engineering scaffolds Cell-material interactions in 3D	Dr. Marie-C Rousseau Epidemiology Head and neck cancer Immunity and inflammation HPV infection
Dr. Andrew F. Smith Health economics Epidemiology Health service research	Dr. René St-Arnaud Transcriptional regulation Osteoblasts Vitamin D metabolism Animal models of bone disease Nascent polypeptide associated complex and co-activator alpha	Dr. Hojatollah Vali Biomineralization Tissue engineering and biomaterials