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Hearing Health Foundation: Applying for an Emerging Research Grant
Full applications due by: February 29, 2024 (link to view opportunity.)
Review the Policy on Emerging Research Grants before proceeding for important information on eligibility, allowable costs, and other important program guidelines.
The mission (via Philanthropy News Digest) of the Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research and to promote hearing health. The foundation invites applications for its Emerging Research Grants program.
To apply for an Emerging Research Grant you must:
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hold an Au.D., M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree, and
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hold an appointment at a nonprofit educational, governmental, or other research institution located in the United States. Appointments include faculty, postdoctoral fellow, or clinical/research fellow. Current medical residents in otolaryngology may also apply. Other medical residents and Ph.D. students are not eligible.
HHF especially welcomes applications from Early Stage Investigators (ESIs are no more than 10 years from most recent terminal degree or medical residency). Several grant opportunities are also open to senior investigators (to skip to these directly, click here). Please see below for details on all grant opportunities available this year.
FOR EARLY STAGE INVESTIGATORS
Early Stage Investigators are invited to apply to the grant opportunity detailed here and to any of the topic-specific grants listed further below under the heading “For Senior Investigators and Early Stage Investigators”.
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Elizabeth M. Keithley, Ph.D. Early Stage Investigator Awards
Formerly “General Hearing Health.” Under this grant opportunity, HHF welcomes proposals on any topic in hearing or balance research, including but not limited to:
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Age-related hearing loss
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Auditory and vestibular implants; hearing aids
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Central Auditory Processing Disorder
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Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of hearing loss and balance disturbance
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Epidemiology of auditory and vestibular disorders
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Hearing loss in children and pediatric hearing disorders
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Human genetics and mouse models of peripheral and central auditory/balance dysfunction
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Human otopathology
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Hyperacusis
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Innovation in cellular and molecular therapies
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Ménière’s disease
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Physiology of hearing and balance
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Tinnitus
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Usher syndrome
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Vestibular disorders
Several awards are made each year.
The above grant opportunity is restricted to Early Stage Investigators, which HHF defines as investigators no more than 10 years from their most recent terminal degree or medical residency as at the application deadline. Please see the Policy on Emerging Research Grants for additional eligibility criteria. Applications from ineligible applicants will not be accepted.
Link to additional information about this funding opportunity.
