Our department is a research-intensive department at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, with strengths in molecular pathology, tumor biology, digital pathology, HIV-related tumors, biobanking, translational diagnostics, and neurodegenerative disease neuropathology, including an established brain bank and tissue-resource infrastructure. Develop integrative dental-neuropathology projects - for example, oral-brain axis biology, periodontal-disease contributions to Alzheimer''s disease and related dementias, systemic-inflammation biomarkers shared across oral and CNS tissue, and cross-tissue application of digital and computational pathology methodology.