The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program, awarded a $781,703 Project Grant to the Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University Indianapolis. The grant, awarded on December 1, 2024, will fund a 5-year research project focused on improving the efficiency and maturation of hair cells and sensory neurons in human cochlear organoids. The...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $128,199 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant, awarded on September 30, 2025, supports research to identify molecular markers and map the local axonal projections of novel neuron types within the inferior colliculus, a...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $131,555 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). The project aims to characterize how noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) affects the cortical representation and perception of complex natural sounds. Key objectives include: 1) Identifying the...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $1,804,160 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a non-profit hospital and research center affiliated with Harvard Medical School. The grant will fund research to further characterize the regulatory mechanisms underlying the development and plasticity of spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs), which play a...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $1,705,195 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, supports research to define the neuronal cell types and mechanisms underlying vocal control circuits in mice, including those involved in coordinating...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $154,568 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Southern California (USC) to conduct research on "Human Cochlear Masking and Suppression Measured Using Dynamic Stimuli." The award period runs from December 31, 2024 to June 30, 2025. Through this grant, USC will perform research to investigate solutions to problems relevant to...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $102,324 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program to The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). The funding supports a research project investigating the role of Dectin-1 expressing macrophages/microglia in age-related auditory nerve degeneration and demyelination. The project aims to define age-dependent changes in Dectin-1 expressing...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,025,057 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) will fund research at the University of Washington aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms by which vestibular hair cells (HCs) develop and maintain their specialized structures critical for sensory transduction and synaptic transmission. The objective is to generate new knowledge that can...
This Project Grant award of $2,119,610.00 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program. The award supports research to elucidate the molecular mechanisms regulating the development and function of hair cells in the cochlea, with a focus on understanding the roles of the clarin-1 (CLRN1) and clarin-2 (CLRN2) genes and their associated protein...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $1,890,178 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program to the University of Utah. The award will fund research to define the mechanisms by which congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection impinges on cochlear immune development to drive sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). The research aims to determine the contribution of fetal-derived...