Ohio State College of Dentistry Faculty Collaborate on Research Projects on Campus and Around the World

Current research collaborations include:

Clifford Beall, PhD (Div. of Biosciences); Ann Griffen, DDS, MS (Div. of Pediatric Dentistry); and Eugene Leys, PhD (Div. of Biosciences)

Dr. Rosalyn Sulyanto 
Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Boston Children’s Hospital 
Bacterial communities in odontogenic infections (infections that spread from the tooth into the rest of the body)

Dr. Paul Fidel 
Louisiana State University College of Dentistry
Bacterial and fungal communities in HIV-infected patients, and how they relate to oral thrush (Candidiasis) and oral warts

Dr. Dana Graves 
University of Pennsylvania College of Dentistry 
Effects of diabetes on oral bacteria. Diabetes is a risk factor for chronic periodontitis

Brian Foster, PhD (Div. of Biosciences)

Dr. Gunjan Agarwal
Mechanical Engineering
The Ohio State University
Roles of proteins in periodontal health and disease

Dr. Francisco H. Nociti, Jr.
University of Campinas 
Dental School at Piracicaba
Brazil
Dental effects of the inherited disorder, hypophosphatasia (HPP) and fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP); functions of periodontal cells and tissues

Dr. Jose Luis Millán
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
La Jolla, CA
Dental and skeletal effects of the inherited disorder, hypophosphatasia (HPP)

Dr. Harvey Goldberg
University of Western Ontario
London, ON
Canada
Roles of proteins in periodontal health and disease

Dr. Martha J. Somerman
National Institute of Arthritis Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, MD
Roles of proteins in periodontal health and disease

Dr. John Bartlett
The Ohio State University College of Dentistry
Division of Biosciences
Roles of proteins in enamel and dentin

Dr. Michael Whyte
Shriners Hospitals for Children
St. Louis, MO
Dental effects of the inherited disorder, hypophosphatasia (HPP)

Dr. Ann Griffen
The Ohio State University College of Dentistry
Division of Pediatric Dentistry
Dental effects of the inherited disorder, hypophosphatasia (HPP)

Dr. Vivek Thumbigere-Math
University of Maryland School of Dentistry
Baltimore, MD
Dental effects of the inherited disorder, generalized arterial calcification in infancy (GACI); regulators of bone and tooth resorption

Dr. Larry Suva and Dr. Dana Gaddy
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
Dental effects of the inherited disorder, hypophosphatasia (HPP)

Dr. Eli Sone
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Roles of proteins in periodontal health and disease

Dr. David Dean
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Bone repair and regeneration

Dr. Dimitris Tatakis
The Ohio State University College of Dentistry
Division of Periodontology
Roles of proteins in periodontal health and disease

Dr. Kim Hammersmith
The Ohio State University College of Dentistry
Division of Pediatric Dentistry
Inherited dental disorders

Dr. Do-Gyoon Kim
The Ohio State University College of Dentistry
Division of Orthodontics
Mechanical functions of periodontal tissues in health and disease

Dr. Sasigarn Bowden
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH
Dental defects caused by endocrine disorders

Dr. Marc McKee
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Roles of proteins in dental and skeletal formation and disease

Dr. Eva Liu
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Dental defects caused by endocrine disorders

Dr. Nan Hatch
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Dental effects of the inherited disorder, hypophosphatasia (HPP)

Sarah Peters, PhD (Div. of Biosciences)

Dr. Henry Fischbach
The Ohio State University College of Dentistry
Division of Restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry
Training students in some dental techniques applied to rodents. Working with students to complete tooth extractions on human cadavers through the OSU Body Donation Program; analyzing with proteomics analys.

Dr. Ruth Barrientos 
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Department of Neuroscience 
Extracting teeth from rats for analyses. Awarded (with Dr. Barrientos) a Chronic Brain Injury pilot grant to investigate the link between Periodontal Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease. This project is in the stage of submitting an IACUC report for approval.

Dr. Maciej Pietrzak
The Ohio State University
Biomedical Informatic Shared Resource 
Data analysis of RNA Sequence analysis and reporting.

Dr. Andrew Reed
The Ohio State University
Mass Spec and Proteomics 
Proteomics analysis

Dr. Margaret Byers
University of Washington 
Neuro-pulpal-dentin dynamics (technical and theoretical consultant in Dr. Peters’ research).

Dr. Joshua Emrick
University of Michigan College of Dentistry
Classifications of neurons innervating teeth (technical and theoretical development consultant in Dr. Peters’ research)

John Sheridan, PhD (Div. of Biosciences)

Dr. Jonathan Godbout
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Department of Neuroscience
Effect of stress on inflammation and the brain

Dr. Leah Pyter
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Department of Neuroscience
Wounding and tumor immunobiology

Dr. Do-Gyoon Kim
The Ohio State University College of Dentistry
Division of Orthodontics
Effects of social stress on bone biology

Dr. Beth Lee
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
School of Biomedical Science
Effects of social stress on osteoclasts

Dr. Ning Quan, 
Florida Atlantic University
Jupiter, FL 
Biomedical Science
Stress on IL-1 response 

Dr. Daniel McKim
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.  
Dept. of Animal Science
Stress and brain circuits 

Dr. Niki Kokiko-Cochran
The Ohio State University
Department of Neuroscience
Stress and traumatic brain injury