This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" will test the capability of a vestibular implant (VI) to improve cognitive dysfunction in patients with severe vestibular damage. The $651,779 award, effective September 1, 2024 through July 31, 2029, will measure how the VI affects spatial orientation, navigation, and neuropsychological function in...
This Project Grant award, valued at $514,546.00 and effective from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2030, was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the CFDA program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders". The award supports research aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of complex forms of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) and related labyrinth disorders. Key objectives include quantifying...
This Project Grant award of $620,240 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) supports an observational study examining vestibular pathophysiology and the vestibular implications of standard interventions in patients with sporadic vestibular schwannomas and NF2-related schwannomatosis. The study aims to analyze vestibular dysfunction, its relationship to clinical disability and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA 93.173 Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program, provides $195,625 to William Marsh Rice University to conduct research on how peripheral vestibular signals generate vestibular compound action potentials (VCAPs). The research aims to reconcile observations between in-vitro electrophysiological recordings from calyx afferents and in-vivo VCAP...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $1,993,333 to The Johns Hopkins University to examine whether novel video-oculography (VOG) measures of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) can be used as valid markers of functional outcome following vestibular loss. The key objectives are to (1) measure recovery and (2) predict...
The federal Project Grant award R01DC021684 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 $828,022 award to James Madison University in Virginia aims to use novel electrophysiological methods to identify, for the first time in humans, nonlinearity in cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) - responses that reflect activation of the...
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 $589,483 to Wayne State University to assess in vivo changes in central neuronal activation, molecular indicators of synaptic transmission, and motor function in response to vestibular nerve hypofunction generated by noise exposure. The project aims to evaluate the contributions of...
This Project Grant award of $194,400.00 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the CFDA 93.173 Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program supports research into the mechanisms underlying a Meniere's disease subtype known as MDHP. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Establishing the phenotypic and genotypic link between the MDHP subtype of Meniere's disease and X-linked hypophosphatemia...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (93.173), provides $461,250 to Yale University to conduct an immunological investigation of Meniere's disease. The research aims to confirm preliminary data showing innate and adaptive immune cell infiltration of labyrinthine tissue in Meniere's disease, providing evidence for an autoimmune basis...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" provides $637,500.00 to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to conduct research on understanding human cochlear micromechanics. The goal is to study the forward transduction that drives inner and outer hair cell stereocilia, as well as the reverse transduction that amplifies organ of Corti motion...