This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" will provide $651,779 to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to investigate the effects of a vestibular implant on spatial orientation, navigation, and neuropsychological function in patients with severe vestibular damage. The project aims to determine if the cognitive deficits experienced...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $828,022 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The grant will support research at James Madison University in Virginia to investigate nonlinearities in human vestibular reflexes related to aging and balance disorders. The research aims to characterize nonlinear response properties and effects of aging on...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.173), will support research investigating the impact of peripheral vestibular injury on central vestibular pathways. The $589,483 award to Wayne State University, with a project period from September 16, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will assess in vivo changes in central neuronal activation,...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $514,546 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Utah. The 5-year grant, effective April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2030, will fund research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of complex benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and related inner ear disorders. The research aims to: 1) quantify variance in human labyrinth morphology to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $2,025,057 to the University of Washington to conduct research on vestibular hair cell regeneration. The objective is to investigate the molecular mechanisms by which vestibular hair cells, specifically type I hair cells, establish and maintain their specialized features that are...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $620,240 to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to conduct research on vestibular dysfunction in patients with sporadic vestibular schwannomas and NF2-related schwannomatosis. The key objectives are to examine the pathophysiology of vestibular dysfunction, relate vestibular dysfunction to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173), provides $195,625 to William Marsh Rice University to conduct research on how peripheral vestibular signals create vestibular compound action potentials (VCAPs). The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: Investigate the interaction of quantal and non-quantal transmission in calyx...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $1,403,696 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Southern California (USC) to conduct research using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging to visualize the fluid compartments of the human inner ear. The goal is to characterize the normal endolymph-to-perilymph ratio in control subjects and compare it to subjects with Meniere's disease...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) provides $611,576 to develop an mHealth application called MVOR. The MVOR app aims to enable patients with vestibular dysfunction to self-administer assessments of gaze stability and receive telerehabilitation through smartphone-based technologies like front-facing cameras and computer vision...
This $319,120 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) supports the development of a portable, wearable device using galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) to counteract episodic vertigo in patients with Meniere's disease. The grantee, Vivonics Inc., will design and test a compact GVS system that can modulate the vestibular-ocular reflex to suppress vertigo episodes. The...