The Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) is currently accepting applications for 2025–2026 awards through the Emerging Research Grants Program.
Donor Name: Hearing Health Foundation (HHF)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The primary purpose of this Award is to enable the Principal Investigator (“PI”) to become established and/or produce quality research that will allow the PI to successfully compete for NIH grants or grants from other sources.
Priority is given to new investigators in the field of hearing and balance and to projects that are likely to open new lines of inquiry. New and innovative projects developed by established scientists will also be considered.
Funding Information
HHF grants up to $50,000 per year for each research project for an initial period of one (1) year.
Uses of Funds
Grant funds may only be used for the direct costs of carrying out approved projects, such as:
- salaries of technical and supporting personnel;
- limited alteration and renovation of existing facilities;
- purchase of equipment that costs at least $5,000, provided that capital equipment necessary to the proposed experiment(s) that costs less than $5,000 may be purchased with grant funds with HHF’s approval;
- supplies including drugs and services; and
- other specifically authorized expenses as may be essential to carrying out the project.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for an Emerging Research Grant you must:
- hold an Au.D., M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree, and
- hold an appointment at a nonprofit educational, governmental, or other research institution located 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 Ph.D. students are not eligible.
- For Early Stage Investigators:
- Early Stage Investigators are invited to apply to the grant opportunity detailed here and to any of the topic-specific grants listed further below under the heading “For Senior Investigators and Early Stage Investigators”.
- Elizabeth M. Keithley, Ph.D. Early Stage Investigator Awards: Formerly “General Hearing Health.” Under this grant opportunity, HHF welcomes proposals on any topic in hearing or balance research, 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
- Vestibular disorders
- For Senior Investigators and Early Stage Investigators:
- Each year a number of topic-specific grant opportunities are available for which HHF welcomes relevant proposals from any eligible investigator, regardless of career stage. The availability and topic of these grant opportunities changes each year.
- Topic-specific grant opportunities for 2025–2026:
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder
- Pain Hyperacusis
- Ménière’s disease
- Tinnitus.
For more information, visit HHF.
