DoW Hearing Restoration Focused Research Award
- Posted
- May 4, 2026
- Closed
- September 10, 2026
- Program funding
- $2,800,000
- Expected awards
- 3
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 12.420
- Archives
- October 10, 2026
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 12.420 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $1.3B
- FY2026 obligated
- $598.5M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 4,414
Top recipients: The Univeristy of Texas M.d. Anderson Cancer Center, Regents of the University of California, San Francisco, the, University of California, Los Angeles, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Hearing Restoration Research Program (HRRP) Focused Research Award (FRA) supports promising research that accelerates drug discovery and therapeutic development for hearing restoration after military-relevant auditory system injury. The FRA may be used to support preclinical studies and/or clinical research. Research must align with at least one of the FY26 HRRP Focus Areas. The FRA cannot be used to support clinical trials, tinnitus research or vestibular research.
Distinctive Features:
• The FRA offers two Funding Levels to support research at different stages and the exploration/development of ideas of different maturity levels.
• Funding Level 2 includes a Partnering Principal Investigator (PI) Option (PPIO) 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.
Who can apply
- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
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