Summer 2009 Hearing Health E-News
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| BTIG includes DRF in its 7th Commissions for Charity Day, which was held on May 19, 2009. |
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| Dr. Chin-Tuan Tan, a 2nd Year grant recipient, received the C.H.E.A.R. Endowment Award. |
Communication with those who support Deafness Research Foundation is extremely important to DRF's Board of Directors. As a co-chair of the Communications Committee and Secretary of DRF, I welcome you to the second issue of Hearing Health E-News, our quarterly e-newsletter. There are many new developments within the Foundation we are happy to announce in our e-newsletter, and hope that you will enjoy reading about the progress DRF is making.
If you missed the first issue of Hearing Health E-News, don't worry -- it's available on our website at http://www.drf.org/Hearing+Health+E-Newsletter/. Please keep in mind that if you no longer wish to receive the e-newsletter, simply click the "unsubscribe" links at the bottom, and you will be removed from the mailing list. Enjoy!
Ronald E. West
Secretary and Co-Chair of the Communications Committee
Deafness Research
Foundation
DRF ANNOUNCES 2009-2010 HEARING AND BALANCE SCIENCE RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS
DRF is excited to announce that it has awarded 17 grants of up to $25,000 each to outstanding young scientists whose projects are in the field of hearing and balance research. To view a list of our 2009-2010 grant recipients, click here
Please look for a full profile of each researcher in our upcoming Fall 2009 issue of Hearing Health magazine. This article will also be available on www.hearinghealthmag.com in October. For a free subscription to Hearing Health magazine, click here
DRF ANNOUNCES DR. CHIN-TUAN TAN TO RECEIVE THE C.H.E.A.R. AWARD
Dr. Chin-Tuan Tan has been awarded the C.H.E.A.R. award for his project entitled, "Measuring and Predicting the Quality of Nonlinearly Distorted Music and Speech as Perceived by Hearing-Impaired People." Dr. Tan was chosen based on scientific merit and relevance to the field of sensory-neural deafness. Dr. Tan's research has been funded in conjunction with DRF's C.H.E.A.R. Endowment Grant.
This endowment was created in 1991 to support an annual Sensory-Neural Deafness Research Grant.
C.H.E.A.R. (Children Hearing Education and Research) was absorbed into DRF in 1991, and we are very excited to continue their legacy of funding research in sensory-neural deafness. For more information about Dr. Tan's research, clickhere
DRF ANNOUNCES CENTURION CLINICAL RESEARCH AWARD RECIPIENT, DR. MARK ECKERT
DRF partnered with CORE Grants Program of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) to offer a one-year Centurion Clinical Research Award (CCRA) of $50,000 for clinical research in hearing and balance sciences.
Dr. Mark Eckert from the Medical University of South Carolina is the 2009-10 DRF Centurion Award recipient for his project entitled, "Neural Changes Underlying Speech-Perception Training in the Aging Brain" that investigates the functional changes in the brain related to improved speech recognition in people with age-related hearing loss who have undergone a novel speech perception training program. For more information about Dr. Eckert's research, click here
DRF ANNOUNCES DR. ADAM MARKARYAN'S RESEARCH FUNDED BY THE BURCH-SAFFORD FOUNDATION
Dr. Adam Markaryan from the University of Chicago has been awarded a grant for his project entitled, "Mitochondrial DNA Deletions and Cochlear Element Degeneration in Presbycusis." This research award is funded by The Burch-Safford Foundation, Inc. For more information about Dr. Markaryan's research, click here
TRADING DAY
DRF is grateful to BTIG LLC, an institutional broker dealer specializing in trading and related brokerage services, for including our organization in its 7th Commissions for Charity Day, which was held on May 19, 2009. More than $3 million earned during its 7th Commissions for Charity Day will be donated to a group of charities and non-profit organizations, including the Deafness Research Foundation. To read more, visit the DRF Newsroom by clicking here
FORMER MISS USA, SHAWNAE JEBBIA, VISITS DRF OFFICE
DRF staff met with 1998 Miss USA, Shawnae Jebbia on June 5, 2009, where she shared her experience with early-onset Meniere's Disease. Shawnae's story will be featured in the Fall 2009 issue of Hearing Health magazine.
To view Shawnae's Fox News interview about her battle and coping with early-onset Meneire's Disease, visit the DRF Newsroom by clicking here
DEAFNESS RESEARCH FOUNDATION IS AWARDED THE 2009 APEX AWARD AND THE 2009 MAGNUM OPUS AWARD
DRF has received two 2009 Apex Awards of Excellence! DRF received awards for editorial content in Hearing Health magazine
and for our newly-designed website, www.drf.org. Hearing Health
magazine also won a Magnum Opus Award for editorial content.
UPCOMING EVENT
October 22-24, 2009 - AARP Vegas@50+ Deafness Research Foundation is exhibiting at the AARP 2009 National Event & Expo on October 22-24 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Don't miss an opportunity to enter our sweepstakes to win a CS1000 UltraClearTM Talking Photo Dial Telephone donated by HITEC Group International and be sure to pick up one of our gift bags at booth 760! For additional information, including registration, click here
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