The Institute of Dentistry at Queen Mary has a thriving PhD student community and we welcome applications for MPhil, PhD, MRD (MRES) postgraduate students and visiting research fellows to undertake research in in all fields where we can offer expert supervision.

The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry is an international Leader in Oral and Dental sciences. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) – a measure of the quality of higher education in the UK – the Institute of Dentistry at Queen Mary was affirmed as the leading dental school for research in the UK.

Our policy is that our dental research should always be in the main stream of biomedical research, contributing to it and at the same time benefiting from strong interdisciplinary links with our colleagues in the rest of the Medical School and the wider College. We provide a friendly, first-class, intellectually stimulating and focused environment for postgraduate study.

Research areas:

Microbial pathogenesis and virulence

Microbial-host interactions and immune defences

Naturally occurring antibacterial peptides and other molecules

Mucosal immune responses

Clinical studies and genetic factors in oral ulceration

Cell biology of bone formation and tissue regeneration

Risk and prognostic factors in periodontitis

Oral epithelial ageing and role of telomerase in oral cancer

Epithelial stem cells in cancer

Keratinocyte biology

Biology of tumour invasion and role of integrins

Clinical studies of treatments in oral cancer

Behavioural factors and smoking cessation