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Call For Proposals for 2011 Funding Cycle

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:30:15 +0000

Research proposals for the 2011 funding cycle are due Monday, August 2 by 12:00 noon. Please see the grant application guidelines for instructions on how to submit your proposal.

AHRF Awards Five $20,000 Research Grants For 2007

tim — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:23:52 +0000

The American Hearing Research Foundation has selected five researchers to recieve one-year, $20,000 grants for 2007. The recipients, from universities around the nation, will investigate hearing and hearing disorders. Research ranges from studying how good and poor readers process sound, to genetics involved in the development of the cochlea.

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Otoferlin’s Role in Hearing

Neeliyath Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, will study the role of a protein called otoferlin…

AHRF Awards Two $75,000, One-Year Birtman Grants to Northwestern University Researchers

tim — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:21:54 +0000

At its 50th anniversary celebration held at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago on November 8, 2006, the American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) announced that there would be two recipients of the Birtman Grant, a one-year, $75,000 grant for research in hearing and balance disorders related to the inner ear.

“This grant is supposed to go to one lab per year,” says Richard G. Muench, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the AHRF, “but this year there were two truly outstanding proposals that we felt both merited the Birtman Grant.”

The recipients are Donna Whitlon, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor of Otolaryngology at…