Project Grant R01DC023531
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary received a $637,500 Project Grant from 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, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028, funds research to advance understanding of human organ of corti (OOC) micromechanics—the mechanical processes underlying hearing in the inner ear. This research...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Eye And Ear Infirmary received a $131,408 Project Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027. This award supports advanced mentored research training focused on investigating maladaptive cortico-amygdalar plasticity following noise-induced hearing loss at the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary received a $473,749 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), awarded September 11, 2025, with completion anticipated by August 31, 2027. The research aims to identify and evaluate FDA-approved drugs capable of preventing noise-induced hearing loss through pharmacological...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Harvard Medical School received a $149,636 Project Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), awarded on September 30, 2025, with a completion date of April 30, 2028. The research project, titled "Human Otopathology Without Invading the Cochlea Imaged Using Optical Coherence Tomography and Verified with Novel...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Miami's School of Medicine received a $484,738 Project Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), effective May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2031. The award supports the development of an innovative bioengineered human pluripotent stem cell (HPSC) system to advance understanding of inner ear development and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $687,094 Project Grant effective February 23, 2026 through January 31, 2031 under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The grant supports fundamental research to elucidate the mechanisms controlling mechanotransduction in hair cells and identify defects in this process that cause deafness. The...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded $386,911 on May 4, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to support development of a bioinspired dual-sensing acoustic probe for ear canal measurements. The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as SUNY at Binghamton, serves as the fiscal administrator for this project, which is scheduled for...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Mayo Clinic received a $711,342 Project Grant award effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030, from 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 funds development of high-resolution clinical imaging techniques for inner ear diagnostics using photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) and artificial intelligence (AI)...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded Boston University a $715,574 Project Grant effective September 1, 2025, through August 30, 2030, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). This research initiative investigates the roles of subcortical brain circuits—specifically the basal ganglia and cerebellum—in speech motor sequence learning and execution by leveraging deep brain...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Merrimack College received a $249,000 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), effective September 2, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The award supports the development and application of a CRISPR-based toolkit to investigate transcription factors controlling hair cell development in inner ear organoids. The...
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary received a $655,214 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), effective May 5, 2026, with a completion date of March 31, 2031. The project, titled "Measurements and Mechanisms of High Frequency Bone Conduction in Humans," develops clinical diagnostic capabilities for high-frequency hearing loss (4-16 kHz) by establishing reliable bone conduction threshold testing methodologies. Currently, clinicians lack bone conduction testing at high frequencies, preventing differentiation between conductive (middle ear) and sensorineural (inner ear) sources of hearing loss and limiting targeted treatment strategies. The research delivers three primary products: (1) characterization of age-based differences in air and bone conduction thresholds in healthy and diseased ears; (2) assessment of high-frequency hearing in children with specific pathologies including otitis media with effusion and cisplatin-induced hearing loss to validate bone conduction's ability to differentiate conductive from sensorineural causes; and (3) evaluation of pre- and post-operative air and bone conduction thresholds in children undergoing middle ear surgery with pressure equalization tube placement. The project utilizes a non-standard bone conduction transducer with superior high-frequency output and a validated calibration scheme that reliably measures force output up to 20 kHz, establishing previously unavailable diagnostic tools for clinical hearing assessment.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $655.2k | 5/11/26 |