March 18, 2009
Burger received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his postdoctoral training at the University of Washington Medical School and the University of Munich. He has recently established his own laboratory at Lehigh University.
NIH awards a $1.8 million grant to current DRF grantee, Michael Burger
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DRF is proud to announce that the National Institute of Health (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders has awarded Michael Burger, Lehigh University assistant professor of neuroscience, a $1.8 million grant for his research entitled "Efferent Inhibitory Mechanisms in Binaural Processing." This grant will build upon the preliminary data gathered from Burger's research entitled: "Efferent Function in Sound Localization Processing", which is currently funded by DRF.
Burger is a first year DRF grant recipient and his research, entitled “Efferent Function in Sound Localization Processing”, centers on the question of how cellular, synaptic and systems level properties are integrated to allow sensory neurons to extract and represent features of the acoustic environment. Results should contribute to the continued improvement of auditory prosthetic devices and understanding auditory diseases that are linked to dysfunction in neural circuitry.Burger received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his postdoctoral training at the University of Washington Medical School and the University of Munich. He has recently established his own laboratory at Lehigh University.
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