[Christopher Geissler]

Hi Kristen,

HHF limits indirect costs to 10% in our open application program and 5% in our consortium program (where most PIs have funding relationships with HHF stretching back over a decade). We are not currently planning on adjusting the rates or reclassifying what counts as which. It’s something that is on our radar, and we’ll be watching what happens at the federal level, what feedback we get from universities, and what other funders are doing.

Best wishes,

Chris

Christopher Geissler, Ph.D. 

Director of Program & Research Support 

Hearing Health Foundation

PO Box 1397, New York, NY 10018

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[Christopher Geissler]

Hi Kavita,

To add more data to your pool: HHF determines the number of awards each year based on available funding (related to the organizational budget, but also restricted funded HHF has received). Reviewers are not told how many awards will be funded. (Later stages of review by our scientific council and board are conducted with knowledge of the number of awards available). We have a ceiling going in to the process, but we could end up awarding fewer grants than was planned, in the case that we do not receive meritorious proposals for a specific award type for which there is restricted funding.

While there’s no written rule, it’s been fairly consistent in the past few years that only proposals scoring above 3.0 on the NIH scale make the shortlist for the second round of peer review.

Best,

Christopher

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