This award enables established investigators to enhance or redirect their research programs by acquiring new skills to address questions in hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language sciences. The program requires involvement in clinical trials and supports career enhancement activities to advance research in these sensory and communication areas.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of organizations such as nonprofits, small businesses, public housing authorities, tribal organizations, government entities, and institutions of higher education. Foreign organizations are not eligible to apply, but foreign components of U.S. organizations a
