Grants awarded
Deafness Research UK has concentrated on its unique aims by awarding grants to research teams at hospitals and universities nationwide.
Applications are assessed by scientific and medical advisers, often in consultation with independent reviewers. This rigorous scrutiny enables us to make the most efficient use of scarce funds. It underpins the charity's commitment to excellence and its determination to transform good ideas which promise a better life for deaf and hearing-impaired people, into reality.
New research awards 2007-2008
Awards totalling £688,875 were agreed during the year ending 31st July 2008
Paediatric Screening and Rehabilitation
Grants totalling £147,267
£147,267 – Professor John Bamford, University of Manchester. Grant ref: 397
Part-funding of a four-year study funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund: Positive support in the lives of deaf children and their families
Improving Benefit from hearing aids
Grants totalling £132, 384
£27,350 - Professor Brian Moore, Cambridge University. Grant Ref: 398
Year three funding of a three-year project grant of £79,065: Comparison of hearing aid fitting procedures for children
£52,616 - Professor Brian Moore, Cambridge University. Grant Ref: 462
Year one funding of a two-year project grant of £109,415: Development and evaluation of clinically applicable tests of auditory function
£52,418 - Professor Brian Moore, Cambridge University. Grant Ref: 468
Studentship grant: Psychoacoustics of pitch perception by the hearing impaired
Genetics of deafness
Grants totalling £8,766
£8,766 – Dr Ghada Al-Malky, University College London Ear Institute. Grant ref: 474
Equipment grant: Audiological assessment equipment
Improving Benefit from cochlear implants
Grants totalling £18,812
£18,812 – Dr Margaret Tait, The Ear Foundation. Grant ref: 463
Funding for year one of a two-year project grant of £36,264: Bilateral versus unilateral cochlear implantation in young profoundly deaf children
Molecular and Developmental Biology
Grants totalling £52,417
£38,474 – Dr David Furness, Keele University. Grant ref: 439
Year two funding for 3-year Project Grant of £116,248: Role of fibrocyte degeneration in age-related hearing loss and exploration of a replacement/stem cell strategy for its prevention.
£4,963 – Dr Mark Maconochie, University of Sussex. Grant ref: 461
Equipment grant: High resolution digital camera and filters for fluorescent microscopy
£7,500 – Professor Andrew Forge, University College London Ear Institute. Grant ref: 294
Consumables grant: Research relating to the prevention, repair or regeneration of the sensory cells of the inner ear
£1,480 – Dr Nico Daudet, University College London Ear Institute. Grant ref: 473
Small project grant: A temporal and quantitative analysis of the effects of DAPT on the expression of Notch target genes in the embryonic chick inner ear
Central auditory processing
Grants totalling £46,869
£46,869 – Dr Roberta Donato, University College London Ear Institute. Grant ref: 465
Bridging funds: Cellular Mechanisms of sound localization: the role of inhibition in the medial and lateral superior olive
Otitis Media with Effusion
Grants totalling: £10,000
£10,000 – Professor Mark Haggard, University of Cambridge. Grant ref: 417
Bridging funding: Extending the value of the TARGET studies
Tinnitus
Grants totalling: £42,906
£41,506 – Dr Lindsay St Claire, University of Bristol. Grant ref: 464
Year one funding of a two-year project grant of £55,963: The impact of blind caffeine withdrawal and abstention on tinnitus
£1,400 – Dr Karolina Kluk-de Kort, University of Manchester. Grant ref: 477
Small project grant: The effect of alcohol on the auditory evoked potentials in patients with bothersome tinnitus
Other:
Grants totalling: £8,880
£2,880 – Dr Nigel Cooper, Keele University. Grant ref: 407
Small project grant: Mechanical studies of inner ear function
£6,000 – Professor Bencie Woll, University College London. Grant Ref: 357
Further funding of three-year studentship of £52,941: Processing visual prosody of speech and sign
Meeting sponsorship
Grants totalling: £1,000
£1,000 – Dr David Furness, Keele University. Grant ref: 479
Sponsorship of the Ted Evans Lecture at the BSA Short Papers Meeting 18th-19th September 2008
Travel
Grants totalling: £13,350
Funds were provided to enable a number of researchers to attend various meetings and for collaborative research projects. The meetings included the ARO mid-winter meeting in 2008 and the 2008 International Hearing Aid Research Conference in Lake Tahoe, California. The Pauline Ashley Prize was awarded to enable one scientist to gain research experience in a laboratory overseas.
Vacation Scholarship Scheme 2008
Grants totalling: £5,680
Undergraduate student summer placements were awarded to the following laboratories:
- Dr Andrew Faulkner, University College London, grant ref: 472
- Dr Katrin Krumbholz, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, grant ref: 471
- Professor Guy Richardson, grant ref: 469
- Professor Quentin Summerfield, University of York, grant ref: 470
Ear Institute programme
Awards totalling £200,544
£105,544 – Part funding of the Deafness Research UK / UCL Ear Institute Studentship programme
£95,000 - Part funding of the Deafness Research UK / UCL Ear Institute Fellowship programme
Note
These figures have been prepared on a cash basis and may vary from those shown in grant correspondence relating to the award and the Annual Report and Accounts.
