ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3, 2001 - The Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) Inner Ear Core Consortium has been awarded a five-year grant totaling $1.54 million from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, a division of the National Institutes of Health. Richard A. Baird, Ph.D., director of CID's Fay and Carl Simons Center for Biology of Hearing and Deafness and Spencer T. Olin Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, made the announcement.
Established in 2000, the CID Inner Ear Core Consortium is a group of 18 scientists from CID, Washington University Medical School and St. Louis University whose research addresses crucial issues in the development, function and regeneration of sensory receptors and their neuronal innervation in the vertebrate inner ear. The consortium consists of an administrative core center, three research-oriented core facilities (Digital Imaging core, Electron Microscopy core, Gene Expression core) and one service-oriented core (Electronic Services core). These cores are physically located in the CID Fay and Carl Simons Center for Biology of Hearing and Deafness.
"The Inner Ear Consortium provides an umbrella that promotes collaborations among inner ear researchers, enhances existing research programs and supports common equipment needs," said Baird. "The grant will specifically fund our administrative center and two of our four cores-the Digital Imaging core and the Electron Microscopy core."
The grant will maintain and provide technical support for shared core equipment in the Fay and Carl Simons Center for Biology of Hearing and Deafness, including a confocal microscope, which examines fluorescent probes in living and fixed tissue, and two electron microscopes, which examine tissue at higher magnification. In addition, one grant will provide support for administrative and technical personnel and essential supplies and fund related speaker programs and training workshops.
CID is recognized as a world leader in oral education, research, professional education and clinical services. CID educates hearing-impaired children from the U.S. and around the world and provides professional graduate education to prepare teachers of the deaf, audiologists and speech and hearing scientists. U.S. News & World Report rated the CID graduate program in audiology within the nation's top 10 in 2000*. CID-developed evaluations and curricula are now used in all 50 states, all provinces of Canada, six provinces of Australia and 33 countries throughout the world. To learn more about CID and its programs, visit CID on the web at
http://www.cid.wustl.edu.
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