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The Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases was founded in 1980 as a multidisciplinary unit devoted to understanding basic pathobiological mechanisms. The Center has a broad research mandate as a campus-wide facility focusing on molecular biological approaches to investigate several research areas integral to pathobiology, including the molecular biology of cell proliferation and differentiation, the molecular basis of hematology, immunobiology and the inflammatory response, and mechanisms of host-microbial interaction. The concept of the Center is that of an interdisciplinary unit without walls. Center faculty work within the geographical confines of the Center on the fifth floor of the College of Dentistry building, while others stay within their departmental space using the Center as a resource for intellectual stimulation and collaboration. At present, over twenty-eight faculty researchers are active in Center-related projects. External funding sources for research of Center scientists has been awarded by government, industry, and foundations, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, the National Science Foundation, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Institute for Cancer Research, and the Office of Naval Research. The Center has developed a number of successful national and |
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International programs for
young scientists and visiting scholars. In the  mid
1990s, the Center director hosted a conference celebrating the fortieth
anniversary of the double helix, a meeting cosponsored by the New
York Academy of Sciences, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and
Green College, Oxford University, Enlgand. Over the past eighteen years the
Center has supported graduate students, medical and dental students,
undergraduates, postdoctoral fellows and visiting professors. Center
faculty collaborate on international research projects with scientists
at Oxford University, the University of Graz, University of Vienna,
University of Bern, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, and
Nihon University, Tokyo. Center faculty collaborate with U.S.
researchers at Harvard, Columbia, University of Chicago, University of
Michigan, University of California at San Francisco, Cornell Medical
School, Rush Medical School, Northwestern University, Henry Ford
Hospital, University of Utah, Virginia Commonwealth University, and
Vanderbilt University. The Center has a continuing educational
interaction with the University of Paris in which French professional
students do summer internships in the Center. Exceptional students from
UIC's Undergraduate Honors College as well as from institutions such as
Dartmouth College, Bryn Mawr College and Brown University have elected
to spend quarterly rotations doing research with Center faculty.
Teaching, both in the laboratory research environment and in the
classroom, is a commitment that Center faculty takes seriously.
(Image in upper-right corner: Dr. Carolyn Bruzdzinski at work studying plasminogen activation in regulation of epithelial cell growth.) |
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