Our Research
Established in 1904 The Melbourne Dental School is one of Australia’s leading oral health research centres. With over 60 researchers and research higher degree students, The Melbourne Dental School aims to be world leaders in the discovery and development of the next generation of preventives, therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics for oral diseases.
The School boasts state-of-the-art facilities in our three clinical and research laboratory buildings. Our research primarily targets prevention and cures for infectious, inflammatory, and immune diseases, with a focus on translational research that has a positive impact on global human health.
We engage and collaborate with other research institutes, industry, and governments from across the globe, giving us significant research capacity to address significant health issues and research questions. The School’s vibrant research environment and extensive collaborations provide exceptional postgraduate research higher degree opportunities. We have an exceptional track record of translating research to the clinic and to policy.
The Melbourne Dental School is situated in The University of Melbourne’s Parkville Campus in the Melbourne Biomedical Research Precinct, Australia’s, and one of the world’s, leading biomedical precincts. Comprising over 40 hospitals, research, teaching and biotechnology institutes and organisations collocated just to the north of Melbourne’s CBD, the Melbourne Biomedical Research Precinct provides the Melbourne Dental School with unprecedented access to the very latest research technologies and some of the best biomedical researchers in the world.
Our Research Themes
Our many valued members of staff, partners and collaborators support the desire to transform health systems and healthcare delivery, reduce the costs of those systems, and improve the lives of individuals and communities locally and globally.
Annual Dental School Research Report 2025
This report details the tremendous breadth and depth of our research and its impact