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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Boston, MA

Funding
$27.9M
$27,940,941
Awards
40
FY2026 NIH awards in Otolaryngology
Principal investigators
36
27 lead a grant here, 9 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
Harvard Medical School, of 53 · Ranking
  • NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
  • NIH gives hospital awards no department code. Each counts under its contact PI's own department, from their PubMed affiliations, or under a department inferred from the award's topic when no affiliation names one. Each award below says which. How departments are assigned
  • These are the awards in the Otolaryngology row of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary page. Department rankings count Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's awards toward Harvard Medical School. It is part of Mass General Brigham's Otolaryngology.

Leads a grant in this department

27 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

  1. Zheng-Yi Chen

    Leads 2 awards · $5,761,633

    • 5U01TR005352-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      AAV-mediated editing to treat human autosomal dominant hearing loss DFNA41 and DFNA2
      $4,610,714
      award amount
    • 1R01DC022562-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      IND-enabling study of AAV-mediated TMPRSS3 gene therapy to treat human autosomal recessive hearing loss DFNB8

      Principal investigators: Zheng-Yi Chen (contact PI), Mustafa Tekin

      $1,150,919
      award amount

  2. M. Charles Liberman

    Leads 2 awards · $3,356,106

    • 5P50DC015857-10Department: investigator's affiliation
      Cochlear Synaptopathy: Prevalence, Diagnosis and Functional Consequences

      Principal investigators: Daniel B. Polley (contact PI), M. Charles Liberman (contact PI), Sharon G Kujawa (contact PI), Stéphane F. Maison (contact PI)

      $2,684,343
      award amount
    • 5R01DC000188-45Department: investigator's affiliation
      Cochlear synaptopathy in noise-induced and age-related hearing loss: mechanisms and treatments

      Principal investigators: M. Charles Liberman (contact PI), Gabriel Corfas

      $671,763
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U24DC020849-05, led by Alicia M Quesnel.

  3. Daniel B. Polley

    Leads 2 awards · $3,350,994

    • 5P50DC015857-10Department: investigator's affiliation
      Cochlear Synaptopathy: Prevalence, Diagnosis and Functional Consequences

      Principal investigators: Daniel B. Polley (contact PI), M. Charles Liberman (contact PI), Sharon G Kujawa (contact PI), Stéphane F. Maison (contact PI)

      $2,684,343
      award amount
    • 5R01DC017078-10Department: investigator's affiliation
      Corticofugal Circuits for Active Listening
      $666,651
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DC023999-01, led by Kameron Clayton.

  4. Kristina Simonyan

    Leads 3 awards · $2,944,913

    • 5P50DC019900-06Department: investigator's affiliation
      Next-generation clinical phenotyping and pathophysiology of laryngeal dystonia and voice tremor
      $1,676,200
      award amount
    • 5R01NS124228-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Clinical Validation of DystoniaNet Deep Learning Platform for Diagnosis of Isolated Dystonia
      $674,349
      award amount
    • 5R01DC011805-16Department: investigator's affiliation
      Imaging genetics of laryngeal dystonia
      $594,364
      award amount

  5. Sharon G Kujawa

    Leads 1 award · $2,684,343

  6. Stéphane F. Maison

    Leads 1 award · $2,684,343

  7. Anand T.n. Kumar

    Leads 4 awards · $2,255,511

    • 1R01DE035199-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Intraoperative fluorescence lifetime navigation system with deformation compensation and MRI/CT co-registration for precision imaging of oral cancer

      Principal investigators: Anand T.n. Kumar (contact PI), Jayender Jagadeesan

      $701,969
      award amount
    • 5R01EB036978-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Fluorescence lifetime-based intraoperative imaging system for sarcoma surgeries
      $600,050
      award amount
    • 2R01CA260857-07A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Fluorescence lifetime tomography for the longitudinal quantification of B cell dynamics during immunotherapy treatment.

      Principal investigators: Anand T.n. Kumar (contact PI), Dan Gabriel Duda

      $502,577
      award amount
    • 5R01DE033427-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Fluorescence lifetime-based tumor contrast enhancement using exogenous probes
      $450,915
      award amount

  8. Anne E Takesian

    Leads 3 awards · $1,672,801

    • 1R01MH143880-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Co-transmission of GABA and Glutamate in Cortical Circuits.
      $666,010
      award amount
    • 2R01DC018353-06A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Diverse Cortical Layer 1 Circuits forAuditory Processing and Plasticity
      $554,078
      award amount
    • 1R01NS148386-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      VIP Signaling Mechanisms in Thalamocortical Circuit Plasticity and Learning
      $452,713
      award amount

  9. Hideko Heidi Nakajima

    Leads 2 awards · $1,328,051

    • 1R01DC022842-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Integrating histology and translational imaging of the human cochlea
      $692,124
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021996-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Advancement of an Implantable Microphone

      Principal investigators: Hideko Heidi Nakajima (contact PI), Elizabeth S. Olson, Jeffrey H Lang

      $635,927
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R25DC023180-01A1, led by David H Jung.

  10. Richard F Lewis

    Leads 3 awards · $1,201,960

    • 5R01DC021434-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Vestibular dysfunction in patients with sporadic vestibular schwannomas and NF2-related schwannomatosis.
      $580,591
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021981-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Vestibular implant tested in patients with peripheral vestibular damage: effects on spatial orientation, navigation, and neuropsychologic function
      $509,361
      award amount
    • 3R01DC021981-03S1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Vestibular implant tested in patients with peripheral vestibular damage: effects on spatial orientation, navigation, and neuropsychologic function
      $112,008
      award amount

  11. Julie G Arenberg

    Leads 2 awards · $1,154,870

    • 5R01DC012142-16Department: investigator's affiliation
      Perceptual implications of cochlear implant electrode-neuron interfaces
      $586,285
      award amount
    • 5R01DC021606-04Department: investigator's affiliation
      Improving Cochlear Implant Outcomes Through Modeling and Programming Strategies Based on Human Inner Ear Pathology

      Principal investigators: Julie G Arenberg (contact PI), Alicia M Quesnel

      $568,585
      award amount

  12. Sunil Puria

    Leads 2 awards · $741,863

    • 5R01DC007910-18Department: investigator's affiliation
      Measuring and Modeling the Cochlear Organ-of-Corti Motions Responsible for Inner-and Outer-Hair-Cell Drives and Amplification
      $694,113
      award amount
    • 5R13DC013748-10Department: investigator's affiliation
      International Hearing Aid Conference (IHCON) 2024
      $47,750
      award amount

  13. Kameron Clayton

    Leads 1 award · $701,848

    • 1R01DC023999-01Department: topic-inferred
      Auditory encoding, perception, and plasticity in the deaf adult brain following inner ear gene therapy

      Principal investigators: Kameron Clayton (contact PI), Artur Indzhykulian, Daniel B. Polley

      $701,848
      award amount

  14. Aaron Kyle Remenschneider

    Leads 1 award · $655,214

    • 1R01DC023531-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Measurements and Mechanisms of High Frequency Bone Conduction in Humans.
      $655,214
      award amount

  15. Artur Indzhykulian

    Leads 1 award · $652,112

    • 5R01DC020190-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Development of Gene Therapy for Hereditary Deafness using Rational Protein Engineering

      Principal investigators: Artur Indzhykulian (contact PI), David P Corey, Marcos Sotomayor

      $652,112
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 1R01DC023999-01, led by Kameron Clayton.

  16. Daniel Faden

    Leads 1 award · $642,406

    • 1R01CA311332-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Blood-based early detection of viral precancers
      $642,406
      award amount

  17. Albert Edge

    Leads 1 award · $617,363

    • 5R01DC020322-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Determination of Hair Cell Fate from Postnatal Cochlear Supporting Cells
      $617,363
      award amount

  18. Rahul Pal

    Leads 2 awards · $606,673

    • 1R21CA317034-01Department: investigator's affiliation
      Fluorescence lifetime imaging for quantitative assessment of in vivo PD-L1 target engagement.
      $437,113
      award amount
    • 5K01EB037630-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      Developing a library of near-infrared fluorophores for multiplexed in vivo fluorescence lifetime imaging of disease biomarkers.
      $169,560
      award amount

  19. Alicia M Quesnel

    Leads 1 award · $595,000

    • 5U24DC020849-05Department: investigator's affiliation
      Massachusetts Eye and Ear/ Harvard Initiative for the NIDCD National Human Ear Resource Network

      Principal investigators: Alicia M Quesnel (contact PI), Felipe Santos, M. Charles Liberman

      $595,000
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5R01DC021606-04, led by Julie G Arenberg.

  20. Faisal Karmali

    Leads 1 award · $581,711

    • 5R01AG075532-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Contribution of vestibular dysfunction and its central multisensory integration to imbalance in aging
      $581,711
      award amount

  21. Anna R Chambers

    Leads 1 award · $467,323

    • 1R01DC023339-01A1Department: topic-inferred
      Auditory-Arousal Circuits in Normal and Disordered Hearing
      $467,323
      award amount

  22. Jeffrey Tao Cheng

    Leads 1 award · $402,788

    • 5R01DC016079-10Department: investigator's affiliation
      Middle Ear Nonlinearity in High Intensity Sound: Impact on Hearing Damage and Protection
      $402,788
      award amount

  23. David H Jung

    Leads 1 award · $334,444

    • 1R25DC023180-01A1Department: investigator's affiliation
      Research Training in Otolaryngology

      Principal investigators: David H Jung (contact PI), Hideko Heidi Nakajima

      $334,444
      award amount

  24. Divya A. Chari

    Leads 1 award · $194,400

    • 5K08DC022696-02Department: investigator's affiliation
      The Phex Pathway: Mechanisms Underlying a Meniere's Disease Subtype
      $194,400
      award amount

  25. Judith Kempfle

    Leads 1 award · $194,400

    • 5K08DC022004-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Plasticity of auditory cortex microglia and perineuronal nets after hearing loss
      $194,400
      award amount

  26. Bishara Awwad

    Leads 1 award · $131,552

    • 5K99DC022957-02Department: topic-inferred
      Maladaptive cortico-amygdalar plasticity after noise-induced hearing loss
      $131,552
      award amount

  27. Frank Yeh

    Leads 1 award · $79,348

    • 5F32DC022491-03Department: investigator's affiliation
      Investigating the role of tip link biophysics on MET function
      $79,348
      award amount

Co-investigators

Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.