New Oral Health Research Hub launched
Published: 12 June 2025
The University of Glasgow’s Dental School has launched the Oral Health Research Hub, bringing together research groups across the School in an ambitious new initiative to generate effective solutions to the big oral and dental challenges facing our communities locally and globally.
The University of Glasgow’s Dental School has launched the Oral Health Research Hub, bringing together research groups across the School in an ambitious new initiative to generate effective solutions to the big oral and dental challenges facing our communities locally and globally.
The hub marks the bringing together of multi-disciplinary research groups across the School, and will be a platform to foster innovation and collaboration with the NHS, policymakers, industry and patients and the public.
Examples of the work already underway and presented at the launch include work in oral sciences (Professor Will McLean), community oral health data labs (Professor Andrea Sherriff), links to NHS clinical dental research (Professor Shauna Culshaw and Dr Hannah Bradley) and research projects from the Hub’s early career researchers (Dr Jennifer Malcolm and Dr Grant Creaney).
Professor David Conway, Director of the new initiative, said: “We have a clear vision with the launch of the new Scottish Dental Hub. The oral health challenges we face are significant - currently, tooth extractions under general anaesthetic are the most common reason children have an elective hospital admission in Scotland, and oral diseases are the most prevalent disease in the world.
"We aim for our interdisciplinary team of researchers to work together and in collaboration both nationally and internationally, to deliver high quality research to improve dental care and address inequalities in oral health both locally and globally.”
Enquiries: ali.howard@glasgow.ac.uk or elizabeth.mcmeekin@glasgow.ac.uk
First published: 12 June 2025