NIDCD- Protocol 97-DC-0057, Genetic Studies of Stuttering

The National Institutes of Health intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with The University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Ho Ming Chow, PhD.

The National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). NIDCD needs Dr. Ho Ming Chow to perform brain imaging and data analysis to support the research activities of the Section on Systems Biology of Communication Disorders. Dr. Chow was formerly a postdoctoral fellow in the Language Section at NIDCD and the investigator who performed the preliminary brain scanning studies of the speech disorder stuttering. The study currently needs to be duplicated in a group of control subjects. This requires the same investigator using the same instrumentation and analytical methods in the same setting within the NIH Clinical Center.

The overall objective is to obtain data that will support discovery and publication of new findings regarding alterations in brain structure and function associated with specific well defined inherited deficits that cause stuttering. To complete the study, scans must be done using carefully matched normal individuals to demonstrate the differences found in stuttering subjects are not in the normal populations.

The project has Two Phases

The Period of Performance is July 15, 2016 through July 14, 2017.

Please see the attached Statement of Work for further information.    

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