Faculty Grants Dr. Carey Balaban Dr. Carey Balaban received a grant from the Department of Defense to understand, through modeling and testing, the biological effects of directed energy on the human body. Sounds above the range of human hearing (ultrasound) can also be ‘heard’ when directed from behind a person at the mastoid process of the temporal bone. The project will extend analyses of the acoustic transmission properties of these cranial structures that are germane to the reception of airborne and direct contact acoustic energy. The knowledge will have wide-reaching implications from military use to health care and better training simulators and entertainment. Dr. Balaban also received funding from the Department of Defense for two projects, NonInvasive, Head-Mounted Measures of Vestibular Function, and Portable Computerized Dynamic Posturography, and Balance Training System to Deliver Sensory Organization Tests in Clinic and Field Environments (Portable Computer).
Dr. Chris Cunningham Dr. Chris Cunningham was a winner of the Bruce and Barbara Wiegand Entrepreneurial Research Award. Dr. Cunningham and his team will work to develop and test gene therapies for LRTOMT-associated deafness. The Bruce and Barbara Wiegand Entrepreneurial Research Award was established by Mr. and Mrs. Wiegand through the Eye & Ear Foundation to provide much needed funding to promising projects that are approaching commercialization. This grant allows the Foundation to receive future support through any successful commercialization.
Dr. Manoj Kumar Dr. Manoj Kumar received an Emerging Research Grant from the Hearing Health Foundation for his project studying the signaling mechanisms of auditory cortex plasticity after noise-induced hearing loss. This project will highlight the path for the development of novel treatment options for impaired hearing and hearing-loss-related disorders such as tinnitus and hyperacusis.
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