Align Technology, Inc. has extended its funding of the Align Research Award Programme for a sixth consecutive year for universities in North America and for a fifth year for international universities. The Align Research Award Programme is an annually funded scheme designed to promote clinical and scientific dental research.

Eight one-year awards of $25,000 each for dental research at international universities (outside the USA) is being made available. Additionally, there are five one-year awards of $5,000 each for intraoral scanner research at universities globally. As part of each scanner research award, Align will either loan the award recipient an iTero scanner for one year or provide an additional $10,000 credit towards the purchase of the iTero scanner. Study proposals for intraoral scanner research are not limited to the field of orthodontics; they may address any aspect of dentistry in which scanner technology would be of value.

Eligible applicants for the dental research award component include full- and part-time faculty members involved in dental or scientific research at universities where Invisalign is available. Eligible applicants for the scanner research award component include full and part-time faculties involved in research in orthodontics or general dentistry, in countries where the iTero scanner is commercially available.

For complete information regarding the awards and the application process and documents, visit https://learn.invisalign.com/internationalresearch. Applications must be emailed by 1 March 2015.