The Graduate Department of Dentistry is the home administrative office for a multidisciplinary
CIHR strategic training program that supports doctoral student stipends at 5 Canadian
universities and has collaborative links to 7 international institutions. Many of the 24 mentors
who serve as supervisors to the CIHR Strategic Training Fellows are members of the U of T
Graduate Department of Dentistry; Professor Richard P. Ellen is the Director.
Hence the CIHR program serves as a vital source of financial support for graduate research
education. The mission and goals of the program are as follows:
To educate a new generation of investigators who will apply
transdisciplinary approaches to generate new concepts of
management for inflammatory conditions and associated pain
by targeting the cell signaling systems from which they arise
- Pro-active, virtually linked network focused on cell
signaling events and how modulation of signaling
pathways may improve human health
- Bridge fundamental science and clinical health outcomes
research, using teams of mentors poised at the interface
of medicine, dentistry, and biomedical engineering
- Foster evidence-based research philosophy, so trainees
will commit to open and ethical dissemination of their ideas
Cell Signaling in Mucosal Inflammation & Pain is fundamentally a program through which
personal financial support is directed to top students whose career goals are in full-time research
leadership. It is not a degree-granting graduate department; it supports students registered in the
various graduate departments of its mentors. The Graduate Department of Dentistry at U of T is
one of the key departments in the network.
To learn more about this exciting new CIHR strategic training program, its mentors, its current
trainees, and how to apply for fellowship support, please visit
www.cellsignals.ca.
