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 $502,742 to Duke University to conduct research on olfactory processing in the mammalian brain. The overarching goal is to uncover fundamental principles of sensory processing by examining how the piriform cortex encodes and represents olfactory information. The research leverages...
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 $1,128,268 to Harvard Medical School to conduct research on transcriptional adaptation and sensory function in the olfactory system. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Investigating the relationship between experience-dependent transcriptional adaptation...
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 $650,049 in funding to Duke University to investigate the structural determinants and neural signaling mechanisms underlying olfactory receptor (OR) activation and antagonism. The project aims to: 1) Compare in vitro activation profiles and in vivo response features of three...
This $558,930 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) will fund a longitudinal study on human olfaction (sense of smell). The primary awardee, the University of Virginia, will collaborate with researchers at Penn State University and Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences to: Determine how olfactory detection thresholds...
The federal Project Grant award R01DC022320 for $665,886.00 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 grant aims to characterize the transformation of odor responses from glomeruli to mitral and tufted cells in the olfactory system of awake animals, explore the underlying mechanisms, and reveal its significance for information processing. Key research...
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), awarded a $559,782 Project Grant to the University of Toledo. The grant, titled "Olfactory Combinatorial Coding in C. Elegans - Our Sense of Smell (Olfaction) Affects Appetite, the Taste of Food, Many Important Physiological Processes, and Overall Quality of Life", will support research to understand how...
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 $541,327 to President and Fellows of Harvard College, doing business as Harvard Medical School, to investigate how hunger and thirst influence olfactory behavior in mice. The research aims to reveal the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which physiological state modulates specific...
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 focused on investigating the immune dysregulation mechanisms behind persistent post-COVID-19 olfactory dysfunction. The $1,941,251 award will support research at Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. to elucidate the specific pathways leading to long-term disruption of smell and taste in some...
Duke University was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2023. The grant funds research exploring the quantum-mechanical basis of odorant detection by olfactory receptors. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $2,671,407 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to Estenda Solutions, Inc. to launch and validate the HUB4SMELL digital platform. HUB4SMELL is designed to promote insights from human olfactory data by providing researchers and clinicians with customized tools for data collection, curation, and analysis using generative AI, as well as access to expert...