DoD Hearing Restoration Focused Research Award

Background
The FY24 HRRP FRA mechanism is intended to support promising research that accelerates drug discovery and therapeutic development for hearing restoration after military-relevant auditory system injury. The proposed research must be relevant to active-duty Service Members, Veterans, military beneficiaries, and/or the American public.
The HRRP aims to advance the science of hearing restoration by funding groundbreaking research that removes barriers in translation and/or diagnosis.

Grant Details
The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) is soliciting applications to the fiscal year 2024 (FY24) Hearing Restoration Research Program (HRRP) using delegated authority provided by United States Code, Title 10, Section 4001 (10 USC 4001). The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) is the program management agent for this funding opportunity.
The proposed research must address one or more of the following Focus Areas:
- Improve and accelerate the translation of biological regeneration/repair mechanisms into clinical applications;
- Develop diagnostic tests that differentiate sensory, neural, synaptic, and central processing disorders;
- Develop reliable in-vitro human models to facilitate the understanding, derivation, and characterization of human auditory cells, and/or to facilitate the evaluation of hearing restoration therapies.

Eligibility Requirements
Extramural and Intramural organizations are eligible to apply, including foreign or domestic organizations, for-profit and non-profit organizations, and public entities.
Independent investigators at all academic levels (or equivalent) are eligible to be named by the recipient organization as Principal Investigator (PI) on the applications.

Period of Performance
Pre-Application (Letter of Intent) Submission Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (ET), July 22, 2024;
Application Submission Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET, August 9, 2024;
End of Application Verification Period: 5:00 p.m. ET, August 15, 2024;
Peer Review: October 2024;
Programmatic Review: January 2025

Grant Value
The anticipated direct costs budgeted for the entire period of performance for an FY24 HRRP FRA – Funding Level 1 should not exceed $250,000.
The anticipated direct costs budgeted for the entire period of performance for an FY24 HRRP FRA – Funding Level 2 will not exceed $750,000.
The anticipated direct costs budgeted for the entire period of performance for an FY24 HRRP FRA – Funding Level 3 will not exceed $1,000,000.