Genetics of deafness

In the financial year 2006/2007 grants totalling £6,583 were agreed in this area.

£2,083 - Professor Karen Steel, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton
Further funding of a three-year fellowship grant of £129,883: Genetic and cellular basis for dominantly-inherited progressive hearing impairment in the diminuendo mouse mutant. [Grant Ref: 346]

£4,500 – Dr Mark Bailey, University of Glasgow
Further funding of a three-year project grant of £118,426: Identification of gene(s) predisposing individuals to developing Ménière’s disease. [Grant ref: 341]