Office of Research - Mentors

Student Research Program

• Robert Bagramian    robtbagr@umich.edu
  Epidemiology and prevention of oral disease
  http://www.dent.umich.edu/pom/faculty/links/bagramian
  
  
• Tatiana Botero    tbotero@umich.edu
  The study of the Angiogenic responses by the dental pulp tissues under dental caries is the major interest of my research. The knowledge of the role of VEGF (a key molecule in Angiogenesis) during pulpitis and the mechanisms used for its expression are important to understand the vascular changes during pulpitis and therapeutic targets to prevent the progression into a necrotic pulp.
  
  
• Robert Bradley    rmbrad@umich.edu
  neurophysiology of central taste circuits; central integration of taste and salivary functions; functional regeneration of sensory nerves through implanted electrodes
  http://www.dent.umich.edu/depts/bms/personnel/faculty.php?uname=rmbrad
  
  
• Brian Clarkson,    bricla@umich.edu
  effects of non-collagenous dentin and enamel matrix proteins on dentin and enamel (re)mineralizaton; and the regeneration of dentin and enamel using dental pulp stem cells and ameloblast lineage cells
  http://dent.umich.edu/crse/staff/clarksonbrian
  
  
• Nisha D'Silva    njdsilva@umich.edu
  molecular and cellular mechanisms of signaling in normal and malignant keratinocytes
  http://ompo.dent.umich.edu/ndsbio.html
  
  
• John Drach    jcdrach@umich.edu
  discovery, mode of action, metabolism of antiviral drugs and function of viral genes
  http://bms.dent.umich.edu/people/jcdrach.html
  
  
• Robert Eber    reber@umich.edu
  
  
  
• Ninna Estrella    ninna@umich.edu
  Oral health education and dentistry for children with special health care needs, with a particular focus on clinical studies among children with autism, craniofacial anomalies and the medically compromised population
  
  
• Stephen Feinberg    sefein@umich.edu
  ex vivo development of a human full-thickness oral mucosal tissue that is suitable for intraoral grafting procedures and for in situ transmucosal delivery of recombinant immunomodulatory proteins
  http://www.dent.umich.edu/research/ccr/sefein.htm
  
  
• J. Christopher Fenno    fenno@umich.edu
  molecular biology of oral spirochete bacteria; interactions between oral bacteria and host tissues
  http://bms.dent.umich.edu/people/fenno.html
  
  
• Renny Franceschi    rennyf@umich.edu
  signals regulating differentiation and function of osteoblasts, and gene therapy approaches for bone regeneration
  http://www.dent.umich.edu/research/ccr/rennyf.htm
  
  
• William Giannobile    wgiannob@umich.edu
  gene delivery strategies for oral and periodontal tissue engineering, signal transduction mechanisms during oral wound repair, and clinical trials relevant to oral microfluidic diagnostics
  http://www.dent.umich.edu/pom/research/labs/giannobile
  
  
• Marita Inglehart    mri@umich.edu
  Research focuses on the many ways in which psyco social and behavioral factors affect patients' oral health, oral health promotion, and the utilization of oral health care services; in addition, Dr. Inglehart's research also considers how poor oral health affects patients' quality of life. Centrally related to these topic areas are issues related to oral health disparities and access to care issues for underserved populations, such as children, socio economically disadvantaged patients and patients with special needs.
  http://www.dent.umich.edu/research/ccr/mri.htm
  
  
• Lynn Johnson    lynjohns@umich.edu
  Investigating how technology can be used to improve dental education and patient care
  www.dent.umich.edu\infomatics
  
  
• Vesa Kaartinen    vesak@umich.edu
  molecular reasons behind craniofacial and cardiac birth malformations, such as, cleft palate, cleft lip and cardiac valve and septal anomalies; growth factor signaling in normal development in order to understand reasons that often lead to a failure in these particular developmental processes
  http://www.dent.umich.edu/depts/bms/research/Kaartinenlab/