The American Hearing Research Foundation has selected five grants to fund in 2012. The foundation received 35 research grant proposals this year. These grants are for $20,000 for one year of research starting January 1, 2012.

• “Actin metabolism in hearing loss”
  Benjamin Perrin, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• “Role of En1 in the specification and differentiation of superior olivary complex neurons”
  Stephen Maricich, MD, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
• “Contributions of auditory cortex and inferior colliculus to plasticity in frequency tuning”
  Shaowen Bao, PhD, University of California — Berkeley
• “The striated organelle in inner ear hair cells: ultrastructural and proteomic studies”
  Anna Lysakowski, PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago
• “Neural correlates of speech envelope and fine structure as evident by the frequency-following response (FFR)”
  Jong Ho Won, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle