Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM

Amount

$148,632.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Sound stimuli are converted into electrical signals in hair cells of the inner ear by activation of mechanically-sensitive transducer channels in the stereociliary membrane. Compared with other types of ion channel, li