The University of Iowa’s Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center has received an $11 million grant.

Carver College of Medicine officials announced Tuesday that the National Institutes of Health renewed the center’s grant. This marks the fifth-consecutive time the center has received the grant from the NIH.

The five-year grant will fund research, clinical trials and clinical outcomes on cochlear implants by UI researchers in the medical school, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Public Health.

NIH funding to the center has totaled $49 million over the last 30 years.

— by Luke Voelz