Hearing Health Foundation Emerging Research Grants program

The mission of the Hearing Health Foundation is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research and to promote hearing health.

To that end, the foundation invites applications for its Emerging Research Grants program. Through the program, grants of up to $50,000 over one year will be awarded to early stage investigators in support of several topic areas, including but not limited to age-related hearing loss; auditory and vestibular implants; hearing aids; Central Auditory Processing Disorder; diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of hearing loss and balance disturbance; epidemiology of auditory and vestibular disorders; hearing loss in children and pediatric hearing disorders; human genetics and mouse models of peripheral and central auditory/balance dysfunction; human otopathology; hyperacusis; innovation in cellular and molecular therapies; Ménière’s disease; physiology of hearing and balance; tinnitus; Usher syndrome; and vestibular disorders.

Each year several topic-specific grant opportunities are available for which HHF invites relevant proposals from any eligible investigator, regardless of career stage. Senior and early-stage investigators are invited for the following topic-specific grant opportunities for 2023-2024: age-related hearing loss, Central Auditory Processing Disorder, hyperacusis, Ménière’s disease, and otosclerosis.

To be eligible, applicants must hold an AuD, MD, PhD, or equivalent degree and an appointment at a nonprofit educational, governmental, or other research institution 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 PhD students are not eligible. 

For complete program guidelines, application instructions, and information about previous award recipients, see the Hearing Health Foundation website.