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 $417,741 project grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop computational models that replicate human auditory abilities. The goal is to improve prosthetic devices and therapeutic interventions for individuals with hearing impairment, cochlear implants, and auditory...
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 $306,073 to Iotamotion, Inc. to develop a navigation-based cochlear implant insertion system. The system is designed to optimize the trajectory and control the speed of electrode array insertion during cochlear implantation procedures, with the goal of preserving inner ear structures and...
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 on perceptual adaptation and speech perception following cochlear implantation. The $682,911 award to New York University School of Medicine will fund a 5-year study aimed at understanding the nature, extent, and potential limitations of the adaptation process that...
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 $713,170 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to develop and validate a Multimodality Micro-Optical Coherence Tomography (MM-MOCT) technology. The MM-MOCT system is designed to obtain high-resolution, cross-sectional images of cellular microstructure and co-localized images of...
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), will provide $251,856 to investigate the neuroplasticity and early adaptations that occur in the brains of adult cochlear implant users. The research will be conducted at New York University Langone Medical Center and will expand the recipient's skillset in longitudinal studies of human...
This $377,700 Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to develop and validate a clinical decision support tool (e.g. prediction model) for early risk stratification of cochlear implant (CI) speech perception performance. The research will integrate novel biomarkers, including electrocochleography and patient comorbidities, and...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $573,315 Project Grant under CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The grant, titled "THE BRAINSTEM VOCAL CONTROL CIRCUITS", is focused on understanding the neuronal cell types and mechanisms underlying vocal production, including both ultrasonic vocalizations and audible emotional vocalizations in mice. The research...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) provides $767,494 to the University of Miami to develop human inner ear organoid platforms for research into hearing loss and vestibular disorders. The key objectives are to: 1) Establish and optimize human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived 3D inner ear organoid systems from patients with genetic hearing loss,...
This Project Grant award under the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) will fund research to investigate the structure and function of TMEM63 mechanosensitive ion channels and their role in inner ear hair cell function and hearing. The $446,199 award to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) will support three specific aims: 1)...
This $194,400 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders, will support research by the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to investigate the role of perineuronal nets (PNNs) and microglia in the dysfunction of parvalbumin-positive interneurons (PVIs) that contributes to hyperacusis and other suprathreshold hearing disorders following sensorineural hearing loss....