Thursday, January 3, 2013

Just announced! 2012 Capita Grant Recipients


Congratulations to Capita Foundation 2012-2013 Grant Recipients!

Allison Coffin, Ph.D.
Washington State University, Vancouver
Project:  “The effects of estrogen on hair cell survival and efficient hearing:  A next - generation
mRNA - sequencing approach”

Claus-Peter Richter, M.D., Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Project:  Non-auditory cortical centers help speech processing”

Fuxin Shi, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School
Project:  A Molecular Signaling Approach To Treatment of Deafness in Infants”

Joe C. Adams, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School
Project:  Inner Ear Lymphatics and Cochlear Inflammatory Responses”

Ruth Van Nispen, Ph.D.
VU University Medical Center Amsterdam
Project:  Evaluating cost-effectiveness of a Dual-Sensory Loss treatment protocol in vision and hearing impaired older adults”

Sabrina Yum, Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania
Project:  Defining the role of ER stress associated with deafness GJB2/Cx26 mutations”

Valeriy Shafiro, Ph.D.
Rush University Medical Center
Project:  Environmental sound and speech perception in relation to language development in children with cochlear implants”

Andrew Sabin, PhD
Ear Machine
Project:  Hearing Aid Genome Project”

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