About
The Blavatnik Sensory Disorders Research Awards, part of the historic $200 million commitment from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to Harvard Medical School, will help propel the School’s mission of transforming health through curiosity-driven research that stimulates the development of new therapies and the creation of new tools to diagnose, prevent and treat disease. These awards will support new high-impact projects that can illuminate the causes of sensory disorders and launch efforts to treat them. Preference will be given to well-defined late-stage research on the path to commercialization of a therapeutic, diagnostic, medical device or biomedical technology. Projects that have the potential for near-term clinical use will receive funding priority.
Projects Awarded
Read more about Blavatnik Sensory Disorders Research Award Recipients.
Dr. Albers
COVID Smell Test: Screening and Charting Recovery of Olfactory Function
Drs. Battelli and Chen
Visual Restoration in Cortical Blindness: A New Protocol to Promote Fast Recovery
Drs. Corey and Kleinstiver
In Vivo Correction of a Common Hereditary Deafness Mutation using Prime Editing
Dr. Lisa Goodrich
The Cellular and Molecular Substrates for Treating Hidden Hearing Loss
Drs. Rutkove and Wainger
A Neuronal Electrical Excitability Recording System for Improved Diagnosis and Biomarker Assessment of the Therapeutic Impact of Drugs in Peripheral Sensory and Pain Disorders
Drs. Woolf and Bean
Developing Novel Neuropathic Pain Therapies