American Hearing Research Foundation Selects 5 Research Projects to Fund for 2008

On October 16, 2007, the American Hearing Research Foundation Research Committee selected five research projects to fund in 2008, for a total grant amount of $105,000.

“This year we received more research proposals than ever before,” says Sharon Parmet, Associate Director of the AHRF. Thirty-three proposals were received.

The five proposals selected for funding in 2008 are:

• “The Role of KCNQ4 Channels in Progressive Hearing Loss.” Liping Nie, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• “Prevent and Treat Noise-Induced Hearing Loss by Drugs Blocking T-type Calcium Channels.” Jianxin Bao, Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
• “Determination of Redox State in Hair Cell Mitochondria.” Richard Hallworth, Ph.D., Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
• “The effects of Selective Hair Cell Damage on Temporal Envelope Coding in the Auditory Nerve.” Michael G. Heinz, Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
• “Characterization of a de novo Protein Expressed in the Mammalian Cochlea.” Jing Zheng, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois