Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre wins collaboration award

Oral Health CRC CEO Melbourne Laureate Professor Eric Reynolds AO. Photo: Dental Hygienists Association of Australia.

The Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre (Oral Health CRC) has been awarded the Enduring Industry-Research Collaboration Award by Cooperative Research Australia.

The award recognises the success of the enduring partnership between Oral Health CRC researchers at the University, Mondelēz International AMEA, GC Corporation and CSL Limited.

Oral Health CRC CEO and Director of Research Melbourne Laureate Professor Eric Reynolds AO and his research and industry collaborators were celebrated, with Cooperative Research Australia noting the enduring support for Oral Health CRC by its partners for more than 20 years.

Melbourne Laureate Professor Reynolds is also head of the University’s Centre for Oral Health Research and a former head of Melbourne Dental School, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.

The Oral Health CRC has generated significant benefits for oral and general health across the globe in pursuing its mission to reduce the economic and social burden of oral diseases on Australians.