Center for Pain Therapeutics and Addiction Research
Explore cutting-edge research focusing on innovative pain management and therapies.
Center for Global and Community Oral Health
Making both a local and global impact by revolutionizing oral health care through interdisciplinary research and education, to address oral health disparities and foster sustainable solutions.
Center for Regenerative Sciences
Focused on developing therapies for the regeneration of tissues of the orofacial complex and exploring other interdisciplinary clinical applications to address pressing national health challenges.
Other research initiatives
- Cariology Research Program
- Dental and craniofacial development & oral health
- Dry mouth and salivary gland dysfunction
- Regenerative endodontics: Saving teeth with stem cells
- South Texas Border Health Initiatives
- Critically Appraised Topics (CATs)
- Dental public health education and workforce
- Faculty Development Program: Training in educational research
- Reliable source of potent stem cells
- Utilizing practice-based and community-based research for oral health improvement
$12 million
In Research awards distributed from the National Institutes of Health in 2022
4,600+
Articles published in Peer-reviewed journals by our researchers and faculty
Rank #7
Of all schools of dentistry receiving National Institutes of Health funding
Graduation with Distinction in Research
The School of Dentistry recognizes individual student investigators who, in addition to completing their clinical dental program, have acquired research skills and accomplished significant research activity.