Description
The DoW Hearing Restoration Focused Research Award supports promising research that accelerates drug discovery and therapeutic development for hearing restoration after military-relevant auditory system injury. The award may be used to support preclinical studies and/or clinical research, but not clinical trials. There are two funding levels available: Funding Level 1 supports exploratory, high-risk, and high-reward research, while Funding Level 2 supports the advancement of research toward clinical translation. Key features of the award include:
• Supports research at different stages and the exploration/development of ideas of different maturity levels
• Offers a Partnering Principal Investigator (PI) Option for two PIs, an Initiating PI and a Partnering PI
• Scored peer review criteria include Research Idea/Rationale, Research Strategy and Feasibility, Impact, and Personnel
• Programmatic review criteria include adherence to the intent of the FRA, contribution to the HRRP portfolio, relative impact, and relevance to military health