About the Centre for Clinical Innovations
The Centre for Clinical Innovations (CCI) is a unit within the University of Dundee, generating intellectual property and industry income in exchange for the provision of services: this income being re-invested into further CCI research.
Based at the University of Dundeee, CCI was established in 2001 (as the Centre for Dental Innovations) to function as a half-way house between, on the one hand, university research and, on the other, potential application of the findings of that research within industry.
CCI embraces the academic values of a university as well as the research governance responsibilities, ethical requirements, and appropriate standards of good laboratory and clinical practice essential for quality health research.
CCI's research aims are centred upon:
- The identification of novel and effective solutions for the improvement of oral health and health-care
- High quality research and development appropriate to modern health-care
- Effective dissemination and exploitation of research findings
CCI's remit will focus on pursuing six core programmes of research, each of which has the same four elements - diagnosis, monitoring, prevention, and therapy:
- Caries
- Erosion
- Periodontal Disease
- Oral Cancer/Cancer and general health care
- Dentine Hypersensitivity
- Oral/Facial Development
CCI will deliver its aims through a combination of science-based PhD projects, which may one day have the potential for clinical application, and commercially supported research projects meeting the needs of Industry.