NIDCD funds clinical trials on communication disorders with FDA oversight, focus on efficacy, or high risk impact to treat or prevent such disorders.
Grant supports translation of basic research into clinical tools improving human health by encouraging collaboration between scientists and clinicians for communication disorder research.
Supports investigator-initiated, milestone-driven clinical trials requiring enhanced oversight for up to 7 years, with mechanistic studies as applicable and one trial per application.
This upcoming grant will fund early-stage research on how to better spread and implement evidence-based practices in hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language disorders.
Grant supports planning & implementing clinical trials in dental research through UG3/UH3 cooperative agreement applications with NIDCR.
Support for early career researchers in hearing, balance, and speech aims to generate preliminary data for future individual research grants.