Summary
The American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) announced the recipients of its 2025 research grants today. AHRF will award ten grants totaling just over $439,000 to investigators who are exploring how we hear and how we lose hearing and balance function.

Chicago, Illinois – January 15, 2025 – The American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) announced the recipients of its 2025 research grants today. AHRF will award ten grants totaling just over $439,000 to investigators who are exploring how we hear and how we lose hearing and balance function. Headquartered in Chicago, AHRF has a 69-year history of supporting hearing research at institutions across the U.S.
Ten investigators explore diverse and important hearing topics
The 2024 grant recipients and their projects are:
- Birtman Grant – $75,000. Choongheon Lee, PhD; University of Rochester; Translational Research in Vestibular Diagnostics: Direct Assessment of Human Gravity Receptors
- Richard G. Muench Chairman Grant – $62,970. Federica Maddalena Raciti, PhD; University of Miami; Characterization and Treatment of Occupational Noise-induced Vestibular Loss
AHRF Discovery Grants – up to $50,000
- Sushobhan Biswas, PhD; Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Identification of Molecular Markers of Mammalian Hair Cells Regeneration
- Nathaniel T. Greene, PhD; University of Colorado Denver; A Novel Method for Assessing Vestibular Injury to Sound and Vibration Exposure
- Junzhan Jing, PhD; Baylor College of Medicine; Comprehensive Cellular and Molecular Profiling of the Cochlear Nucleus in Rhesus Monkeys: Insights into Auditory Processing and Disorders
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Yuvraj Joshi, PhD and Jeffrey Savas, PhD; Northwestern University; The Role of Extremely Long-Lived Proteins in Acquired Hearing Loss
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Elin Roverud, AuD, PhD, CCC-A; Boston University; Comparing effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and transcranial alternating current stimulation during auditory training for listeners with hearing loss struggling with speech-on-speech understanding
- Takashi Sato, MD, PhD; Medical University of South Carolina; Neural Basis for Motion Induced Sickness in Mice
Bernard & Lottie Drazin Resident Grants – $1,000
- Pavan S. Krishnan, MD; University of Miami/Jackson Health System; Mechanisms of Vestibular Injury and Therapeutic Hypothermia Post-Blast
- Carly Misztal, MD; University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Effect of Hypoxia on the Vestibular Schwannoma Tumor Microenvironment
About AHRF
The American Hearing Research Foundation is a nonprofit organization that has been making new discoveries possible for 68 years by funding novel research to better understand and overcome hearing and balance disorders. In the last 10 years, the organization has funded 88 projects with over $2.6 million in research grants.
For more information on AHRF, visit www.American-Hearing.org. Donations for research funding can be made online.
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