This $1,804,160 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), supports research to investigate the regulatory mechanisms underlying the development and plasticity of neural circuits involved in sound encoding in the mammalian auditory system. The key research objectives are to: 1) characterize the mechanisms underlying the initial...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $589,393.00 and awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support research to elucidate how the neural circuit in the mammalian cochlea assembles during development. The principal investigator at Northwestern University will utilize genetically modified mouse models to investigate key questions regarding the...
This $610,725 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) will support research to characterize the physiological mechanisms contributing to speech comprehension challenges in individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. The key objectives are to: Measure the effects of distorted cochlear tonotopicity on neural coding and perception of speech-in-noise through psychophysical,...
This Project Grant award, valued at $1,841,384.00, 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 award supports research to investigate how cholinergic signaling in the inferior colliculus (IC) of the auditory midbrain influences sound processing and how this may be altered in conditions like hearing loss and aging. The project aims to determine the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) supports research to investigate the neural mechanisms that enable recovery of sound localization abilities after hearing loss. The $147,486 award to Emory University will fund a study to record neural activity in the auditory cortex and inferior colliculus of mice over the course of behavioral recovery from unilateral hearing...
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 $312,898.00 to support research on the cortical role for skilled, sound-guided behavior in mice. The award was granted to New York University School of Medicine, a leading academic medical center and research institution, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to March 31,...
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), is providing $693,856 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2029. The purpose of this funding is to conduct research to better understand the structure and function of coordinated neural activity in the auditory system of...
This five-year, $734,582 Project Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders will fund research at Lehigh University to investigate the developmental determination of central auditory physiology by the inner ear. The grant is part of the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program. Specifically, the university will develop a model of repatterned frequency representation in the chick inner ear by overexpressing the bone morphogenetic...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,890,178 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" will support research to investigate the role of fetal-derived resident tissue macrophages in normal cochlear development and how cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection affects these macrophages to drive sensorineural hearing loss. The research aims to define the contribution of...
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 $521,432 to the University of Rochester to develop a new computational model of the human auditory subcortex. The model will integrate aspects of binaural processing and efferent gain control to investigate masking in complex sounds for both normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners....