The Centre for Oral Health Research has now been formally established and launched by the University of Melbourne.
It will be led by Laureate Professor Eric Reynolds, previous head of the Melbourne Dental School and the lead on the Pg vaccine research program.
The Centre is an evolution of the Oral Health CRC and the CRC for Oral Health Science, which has long been supported by funding from the Australian Government through its Cooperative Research Centres Program.
Building on the technologies resulting from the Oral Health CRC, the Centre will develop novel diagnostics, therapeutic and preventive oral care products to substantially lower the social and economic burden of the major chronic oral diseases.
It will seek to establish the link between those diseases and systemic diseases and conditions to inform government policy on population oral health and to promote better oral health in the broader community as well as in high risk groups.
The Centre will also continue the work of the Oral Health CRC on developing a vaccine to treat chronic periodontitis.
