Dental medicine research is moving from the dental chair to the core of the health sciences at large. The Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences' leading research program boasts numerous research chairs, including:
The mandate of these prestigious appointments is to advance the frontier of knowledge within their fields in areas identified as of the utmost critical concern to society.
Canada Research Chairs
Tier 1
- Luda Diatchenko - Human Pain Genetics
- Marc D. McKee - Biomineralization
- Maryam Tabrizian - Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine
- Simon Tran - Craniofacial Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells
Tier 2
- Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi - Advanced Digital Primary Healthcare
- Emerson Krock - Pain Neuroimmunology
- Marc Martel - Chronic Pain, Mental Health and Opioid Use
- Etienne Vachon-Presseau - Chronic Pain
Past Research Chairs
- Luda Diatchenko - Canada Excellence Research Chair in Human Pain Genetics Laureate
- Faleh Tamimi Marino - Musculo-Skeletal (Tier 2)
- Dieter Reinhardt - Cell-Matrix Biology (Tier 1)
- Jake Barralet - Osteoconductive Biomaterials (Tier 2)
- Simon Tran - Craniofacial Stem Cells (Tier 2)
- Belinda Nicolau - Life Course Oral Epidemiology (Tier 2)