Current grant-funded research projects and programs
Electroacoustic Stimulation
Principal Investigator: Oliver Adunka
Co-Investigators: Craig Buchman, Marcia Clark Adunka, Harold Pillsbury
Med EL Corporation
03/27/07 – 03/27/10
$5,500
Monitoring Residual Hearing During Cochlear Implantation
Principal Investigator: Oliver Adunka
Co-Investigator: Doug Fitzpatrick
Med-El Corporation
12/01/08 – 11/30/09
$154,651
Bilateral Cochlear Implantation in Children
Principal Investigator: Craig Buchman
Co-Investigators: Holly Teagle, Oliver Adunka, Carlton Zdanski, John Niparko, Jill Cinnici, Nancy Fink
Advanced Bionics Corporation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (subsite)
03/19/08 – 03/18/11
$66,871
Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Non-NF2 Patients
Principal Investigator: Craig Buchman
Co-Investigators: Marcia Clark Adunka, Holly Teagle, John Grose, Matt Ewend,
Derald Brackmann, Jose Fayad, Marc Schwartz, Steve Otto
Cochlear Corporation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (subsite)
03/27/07-03/27/10
Vibrant Med EL Clinical Trial
Principal Investigator: Craig Buchman
Co-Investigators: Marcia Clark Adunka, Oliver Adunka, Harold Pillsbury
Sponsor: Med EL Corporation
09/21/07 – 09/21/10
$56,000
Spectral Profile Cues and Synthetic Listening
Principal Investigator: Emily Buss
NIH/NIDCD
12/15/05 – 11/30/10
$119,797 (current year)
The Inferior Colliculus as a Site of Electrical Stimulation
Principal Investigator: Doug Fitzpatrick
Co-Investigator: Charles Finley
NIH-NIDCD
12/08 – 11/11
$275,000 (total direct costs)
Complex Sound Analysis in Normal and Impaired Ears
Principal Investigator: John Grose
Co-Investigators: Emily Buss, Charles Finley
NIH/NIDCD
12/01/92 – 08/31/13
$212,500 (current year)
Development and Plasticity in Normal and Impaired Ears
Principal Investigator: Joseph Hall
Co-Investigator: Emily Buss
NIH/NIDCD
09/01/86 – 08/31/12
$212,500 (current year)
Spectro-Temporal Analysis in Normal and Impaired Ears
Principal Investigator: Joseph Hall
Co-Investigator: Emily Buss
NIH/NIDCD
09/01/86 – 07/31/09
$215,711 (current year)
Computer Modeling of Surgical Outcomes for Nasal Airway Obstruction
Principal Investigator: Julia Kimbell
Medical College of Wisconsin Subcontract/NIH
06/01/09-4/30/13
$299,516 (total direct costs)
Mechanisms of Species-Dependent Environmental Lung Injury
Principal Investigator: Julia Kimbell
University of Alabama at Birmingham Subcontract/NIEHS
06/01/09-3/31/11
$43,494 (total direct costs)
Development of Specific Modifications to Mult-Path Particle Deposition Model and Software Interface: Human Nasal Region
Principal Investigator: Julia Kimbell
The Hamner Institute Subcontract/NIOSH
06/01/09-12/31/09
$4,972 (total direct costs)
3D Imaging and Computer Modeling of the Respiratory Tract
Principal Investigator: Julia Kimbell
The Hamner Institute Subcontract/PNNL
06/01/09-8/31/09
$4,515 (total direct costs)
Dose Assessment of Selected Components of Fragrance Materials in the Respiratory Tracts of Humans and Rats
Principal Investigator: Julia Kimbell
The Hamner Institute Subcontract/RIFM
06/01/09-6/30/11
$40,000 (total direct costs)
Research Training in Otolaryngology
Principal Investigator: Paul Manis
NIDCD
07/01/03 – 06/30/10
$1,009,288 (total direct costs)
Physiology of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Molecular Layer
Principal Investigator: Paul Manis
NIDCD
12/06 – 06/11
$1,250,000 (total direct costs)
Cellular Mechanisms of Auditory Information Processing
Principal Investigator: Paul Manis
NIDCD
04/01/09 – 03/31/14
$1,250,000 (total direct costs)
Prospective Studies of the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia
Principal Investigators: John Gilmore, Aysenil Belger, Anthony-Sam Lamantia, Eva Anton, and Martin Styner
Co-Investigators: Paul Manis, Honor Wolfe, and James Reznick
08/01/08-7/31/10
$1,4239,311 (total direct costs)
Quality of Life Among African-American Head and Neck Cancer Survivors
Principal Investigator: Andrew Olshan
Co-Investigators: Jianwen Cai
Collaborators: Mark Weissler, William Funkhouser
Lance Armstrong Foundation
2007-2010
$225,000
Moderators of Functional Outcomes in Children with Mild to Severe Hearing Loss
Principal Investigators: Bruce Tomblin (Univ. of Iowa), Mary Pat Moeller (Boys Town National Research Hospital)
UNC Co-Principal Investigators: Patricia Roush, Melody Harrison
University of Iowa Subcontract/NIH-NIDCD
08/01/08 – 07/31/13
$1,506,334 (total amount)
Role of Adenosine in Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Principal Investigator: Xioyang Hua
Co-Investigator: Brent Senior
American Academy of Otolaryngology CORE
04/01/08 – 03/31/09
$10,000
Molecular and Immunohistochemical Differentiation of Thyroid Follicular Lesions
Principal Investigator: Carol Shores
Co-Investigators: Adam Zanation, Mihir Patel
AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigator Award
07/01/07 – 06/30/09
$20,000 (current year)
Childhood Development after Cochlear Implantation (CDaCI Study)
Coordinating Center: Johns Hopkins University
UNC Principal Investigator: Holly Teagle
UNC Co-Investigators: Carolyn Brown, Craig Buchman, Harold Pillsbury, Carlton Zdanski, Jennifer Woodard, Hannah Eskridge
NIH/NIDCD
08/01/07 – 07/30/12
$523,541
Children’s Hearing Intervention Program; Center for Acquisition of Spoken language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE)
Principal Investigator: Holly Teagle
The Oberkotter Foundation
2001-2009
$1,512,000
Center for Acquisition of Spoken language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE), Wilmington expansion site
Principal Investigator: Holly Teagle
Cape Fear Memorial Foundation
2007-2009
$225,000
Center for Acquisition of Spoken language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE), Statewide Expansion Project
Principal Investigator: Holly Teagle
The Duke Endowment
2006-2008
$300,000
Wake Children’s Hearing Intervention Program
Principal Investigator: Holly Teagle
The John Rex Endowment
2003-2008
$103,171
North Carolina Children’s Airway Center
Principal Investigator: Carlton Zdanski
Duke Endowment
7/1/07-6/30/2010
$360,000 (total direct costs)
