Oral Biology PhD Program

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Program objectives are to train individuals for careers in research and teaching in areas related to oral biology; Ph.D. graduates will have the qualifications and research expertise to become productive faculty members at leading universities and senior scientists in various academic institutions or industrial settings.

Oral biology encompasses the study of the structure and function of normal and abnormal tissues of the oral cavity and related areas, as well as the study of disease and healing mechanisms specific to various oral conditions. The discipline of oral biology applies and extends the concepts of immunology, embryology, physiology, cellular and molecular biology, pharmacology, microbiology, and biochemistry to understanding the growth and development and pathologies associated with the oral cavity. Attention in dental research and practice is now focusing on the dynamics of oral disease and prevention and treatment at the earliest stages of development, including research on risk factors for disease as well as the cellular and molecular events in disease pathogenesis. Molecular approaches for oral disease analysis and the complexity of disease elements require advanced training in the discipline of oral biology. Modern biomedical research is also identifying systemic relationship between oral conditions, health status, and diseases such as atherosclerosis, HIV, cancer; the oral cavity also offers an ideal model to study biological structures and cellular mechanisms important throughout the body and important in immune response.

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For more information, contact:

Dr. Patrick Flood
Associate Dean for Research
Director, Oral Biology PhD Program
101 Dental Research Center
UNC School of Dentistry
CB# 7455
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7450

Telephone: 919-966-1538
Fax: 919-966-3683
Email: Pat_Flood@dentistry.unc.edu

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