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AMERICAN HEARING RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS TO
GIVES $100,000 IN RESEARCH GRANTS FOR
2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 12, 2008
Contact: Sharon Parmet. Executive Director,
American Hearing Research Foundation
(312) 726-9670
Sparmet@american-hearing.org
On November 3, 2008, the American Hearing
Research Foundation selected five research
proposals to fund in 2009. The selections were made
by the AHRF's Research Committee from more than 35
proposals received from universities and hospitals
throughout the United States.
"This year we had our highest number of research
proposals received," says Alan Micco, M.D., of
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, and the
AHRF's Research Committee Chairman. The proposals
this year focused primarily on hair cells and
spiral ganglion regeneration.
Each one-year grant is for $20,000. The five
research projects chosen to be funded in 2009 are
as follows:
- Lawrence Lustig, MD, "The role of synucleins
in the mammalian cochlea"
University of California at San Francisco
- Takako Kondo, Ph.D., "A novel stem cell
replacement therapy for damaged spiral ganglion
neurons"
Indiana University School of Medicine,
Indianapolis
- Donna Whitlon, Ph.D., "Schwann cells in
normal and noise damaged cochleas"
Northwestern University, Chicago
- Lisa Potts, Ph.D., "Speech evoked auditory
brainstem responses in normal-hearing and
hearing impaired adults with and without
amplification"
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Matthew Banks, Ph.D., "Neural basis for
sensory discrimination and perceptual learning
in auditory cortex"
University of Wisconsin, Madison
The American Hearing Research Foundation funds
research into hearing and balance disorders related
to the inner ear, and has funded more than 150
research projects in its 52 year history. You can
learn more about the American Hearing Research
Foundation at www.american-hearing.org.
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