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Principal Investigator: Alan Gi-Lun Cheng
Organization: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Fiscal Year: 2024
Award: $351,416
Funding agency: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Basic science, translational, and clinical research in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
is improving the way we diagnose and treat patients. A critical component of these research
areas is the partnership among clinicians, clinician-scientists, and basic scientists. Herein, we
propose to enhance a research training program designed to cultivate clinician-scientists who
are interested in studying hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language. Our
research training program is designed to provide residents and medical students with intense
research experiences, a structured didactic program, and close mentorship and guidance.
Trainees will be ingrained with the philosophy that research is collaborative between MD and
PhD scientists. Our short-term goals are to recruit and train diverse and promising scientists
studying communication health and diseases, who will make and share innovative discoveries.
The ultimate long-term goal of our training program is two-fold: our graduates will 1) become
independent NIH-funded investigators in faculty positions in academic departments, and 2)
improve human health by advancing our field via scientific discovery that is translated to clinical
care.
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