Primary Recipient

POMONA COLLEGE

Amount

$440,159.00

Award Date

4/09/2010

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

In humans, hair cells are the receptors found within the inner ear that mediate hearing and balance. When the sensory hair cells die through environmental stresses (e.g. listening to the iPod too loudly for too long), normal aging and genetics, this often