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Press Releases / News
NYU Dentistry Awarded Department of Defense Grant to Investigate the Causes of Oral Cancer Pain
10/03/2022
Project will address a neglected issue that extracts an enormous toll on our injured soldiers and veterans: chronic pain and oral cancer pain.
The Department of Defense has awarded Yi Ye, PhD, a three-year grant in excess of $700,000 to expand her research into how oral cancer causes pain. The grant began on September 30, 2022 (award number W81XWH2210723).
Dr. Aditi Bhattacharya Awarded NIH grant to Study Oral Cancer Pain
08/19/2021
Aditi Bhattacharya, BDS, MDS, PhD, has been awarded a two- year grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study oral cancer pain.
NYU Oral Cancer Center Awarded NIH Grant to Study Interplay Between Oral Cancer and Nerves
03/01/2021
NYU Oral Cancer Center has been awarded a five-year, $3.1 million grant (R01 CA231396) by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The principal investigators, Donna Albertson, PhD, and Brian Schmidt, DDS, MD, PhD, seek to improve oral cancer treatment and alleviate pain by better understanding how a subset of nerves that possess a receptor called TRPV1 on the cell membrane contribute to cancer progression and pain.
01/28/2021
NYU College of Dentistry clinician-scientists Seiichi Yamano and Brian Schmidt have set out to develop a new class of medicines using gene therapy to effectively and safely treat oral cancer pain. The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded the researchers a five-year, $2.9 million grant (R01DE029694) to test whether nonviral co-delivery of DNA and RNA will safely alleviate oral cancer pain.
Oral Cancer Pain Predicts Likelihood of Cancer Spreading
10/07/2020
Oral cancer is more likely to spread in patients experiencing high levels of pain, according to a team of researchers at New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry that found genetic and cellular clues as to why metastatic oral cancers are so painful.
09/25/2020
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded NYU College of Dentistry researchers Nigel Bunnett, PhD, and Brian Schmidt, DDS, MD, PhD, a $3.9 million grant (R01 DE029951-01) to study targeting endosomal receptors for the treatment of chronic pain.
NYU Dentistry Awarded $2.2 Million NIH Grant to Investigate How Oral Cancer Causes Pain
04/16/2020
NYU Dentistry Awarded $2.2 Million NIH Grant to Investigate How Oral Cancer Causes Pain
Researcher Yi Ye to Study Schwann Cells and Their Role in Oral Cancer Progression and Pain
NYU Oral Cancer Center Awarded $2.5 Million NIH Grant to Study Cancer Pain
Sep 05, 2019
Research to Focus on Artemin, a Protein Encoded by a Gene Highly Expressed in Oral Cancer and Linked to Cancer Growth and Pain.
Sep 05, 2018
Aditi Bhattacharya, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and research pathologist at the NYU Oral Cancer Center, has been awarded the inaugural research grant from the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP).
Department of Defense Grant Awarded to NYU's Dr. Brian Schmidt and Columbia's Dr. Nigel Bunnett
Sep 04, 2018
$2.4 Million Grant Funds Collaboration to Study Nerve Cell Receptors Responsible for Chronic Pain
Jan 23, 2018
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Brian Schmidt, DDS, MD, PhD, of the Bluestone Center for Clinical Research at New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry) and Nigel Bunnett, PhD, of Columbia University's Departments of Surgery and Pharmacology, a $3.7 million, five-year grant to study proteases and neuronal signaling responsible for oral cancer pain.
Sep 05, 2017
Finding may have implications for the clinical treatment of pain. Researchers at the Bluestone Center for Clinical Research at the New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry) have identified a novel molecular mechanism which explains why dark-skinned and light-skinned people respond differently to heat and mechanical stimulation.
Aug 03, 2017
The research has the potential to lead to the development of novel therapeutic approaches to oral cancer pain.
Jul 07, 2017
Nicole Scheff, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Brian L. Schmidt, director of the NYU Bluestone Center for Clinical Research and the NYU Oral Cancer Center, both located at New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry), has received a two-year, $120,000-plus F32 grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). The grant was awarded to Dr. Scheff to investigate whether immune cells in the oral cancer environment contribute to sex differences in oral cancer pain.
Jun 14, 2016
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Drs. Brian Schmidt and Seiichi Yamano a $1.2M grant to test whether their nonviral gene delivery method can effectively and safely treat oral cancer pain.
Jan 26, 2016
Dr. Brian Schmidt and Dr. Igor Spigelman will focus on the therapeutic utility of recently developed synthetic cannabinoids which work to relieve the chronic inflammation and neuropathic pain symptoms of oral cancer without “getting high.”
Dr. Yi Ye receives a CTSI KL2 Career Development Award
Oct 08, 2015
Dr. Yi Ye, Assistant Professor in the department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Associate Director for Clinical Research Operations at the Bluestone Center for Clinical Research, was selected as one of three scholars in the NYU Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI KL2) program.