Vida Zohoori, Professor in Oral Public Health and Nutrition at the Teesside University in Middlesbrough, has conducted research on caries and fluoride in many parts of the world. Her current project investigates whether milks supplemented with fluoride or probiotics could improve the oral health of older adults. Professor Zohoori, could you please describe your study […]

The Eklund Foundation for Odontological Research and Education is pleased to announce the projects receiving this year’s funding. The Eklund Foundation now supports research projects in dentistry for the sixth year running. The two chosen projects, which are to be conducted in the UK and Italy, will together receive funding amounting to almost €240,000.  Joel […]

Funds of in total €220,000 have been allocated to odontological research and education by the Board of Eklund Foundation in 2021, and during May, it is time to apply through the website eklundfoundation.org. The successful projects will be announced this autumn. Since 2016, the Eklund Foundation has distributed €140,000-200,000 annually to studies in periodontology, implantology and cariology worldwide. Teams […]

The project Healthy food and Healthy teeth in children from low socio-economic positions led by Professor Monique van der Veen at ACTA Preventive Dentistry, received €40,000 from Eklund Foundation in 2020. Congratulations on receiving the grants! How did you learn about Eklund Foundation? Through my work at the oral hygiene school of Inholland Amsterdam and the Academic Centre […]

DDS and PhD Stud. Marie Nordström presents her research project “Salutogenesis against the odds – resilience factors among adolescents” which is conducted at Malmö Dental School. The project received EUR 160,000 from Eklund Foundation in 2020.

“We’re still not able to reduce health inequalities, and normally, we ask what creates disease, but if we instead ask what creates health, perhaps we can shift the focus and achieve sustainable results, and also achieve results in general health”, says DDS Marie Nordström. In 2020, she received funding from Eklund Foundation for her project […]

The Eklund Foundation for Odontological Research and Education is pleased to announce the projects receiving this year’s grants of approximately EUR 200,000.   The Eklund Foundation now supports odontological research projects for the fifth year running. This year, two projects related to cariology were chosen to receive grants.   Joel Eklund, Chairman of the Board, Eklund Foundation, said, “We choose to acknowledge and support these important projects related to cariology, as they put young people’s oral health in a social context […]

Applications for grants from Eklund Foundation are accepted on the website eklundfoundation.org from 1 to 31 May. Funds of EUR 200,000 have been allocated for distribution in 2020. Experimental and clinical studies within all fields of dentistry are welcome, though projects that can be related to periodontology, implantology or cariology will be prioritised. Applicants may […]

It is time for researchers within dentistry to prepare their applications for funding from the Eklund Foundation for Odontological Research and Education in 2020. This year, the Board of Eklund Foundation has allocated EUR 200,000 in research support. The application period starts 1 May and the last day of submission is 31 May. The application […]

Marie Nordström, who was granted the 2019 Eklund Foundation Scholarship for the promotion of odontological research, visited TePe to present the outlines of her research study. Marie Nordström, PhD student, was recently awarded a scholarship of SEK 150,000 (approx. EUR 14,000) for her project Origins of Salutogenesis among Healthy Young Adults at a Low Socioeconomic […]