NIDCD National Temporal Bone,Hearing,&Balance Pathology Resource Regis.

该合同维护并进一步发展了NIDCD国家颞骨、听力和平衡病理资源登记处，作为公众和生物医学研究社区的全国性资源，促进对潜在疾病和听力和平衡障碍的病理学研究。该登记处向公众和保健从业者提供有关获取颞骨和相关脑组织用于研究的信息和外展服务。它还通过建立和维护目前活跃和不活跃的人类颞骨和脑组织集合的目录，以及通过中介将组织标本从非活跃集合转移到活跃的研究中心来保护颞骨和大脑集合，为生物医学研究界提供服务。该登记处使调查人员能够根据临床和组织病理学诊断和其他相关数据，识别和定位在美国持有的所有可用的经处理的颞骨和相关脑组织标本，以便进行进一步的研究。其他合同活动将继续鼓励对听力和平衡疾病和障碍的研究，特别是利用分子生物学、遗传学和细胞生物学技术的研究，方法是：1)向听觉和前庭研究团体传播相关信息，2)开发和促进关于听觉和前庭系统病理学的专业教育计划，以及3)鼓励研究人员在人类颞骨和相关的听力和平衡的大脑结构研究方面的合作。

This contract maintains and further develops the NIDCD National Temporal Bone, Hearing and Balance Pathology Resource Registry that serves as a national resource for both the public and the biomedical research communities to promote research in the pathology underlying diseases and disorders of hearing and balance. The Registry provides information and outreach services to the public and to health care practitioners on the acquisition of temporal bone and related brain tissues for research purposes. It also serves the biomedical research community by establishing and maintaining a catalog of currently active and inactive human temporal bone and brain tissue collections and by conserving temporal bone and brain collections by brokering the transfer of tissue specimens from inactive collections to active research centers. The Registry enables investigators to identify and locate all available processed temporal bones and related brain tissue specimens held in the United States by clinical and histopathologic diagnoses and other pertinent data so that further studies may be pursued. Additional contract activities will continue to encourage the pursuit of research on the diseases and disorders of hearing and balance, particularly research utilizing the techniques of molecular biology and genetics and cellular biology by: 1) disseminating pertinent information to the auditory and vestibular research communities, 2) developing and fostering a program of professional education on pathology of the auditory and vestibular systems, and 3) encouraging investigator collaborations in the study of the human temporal bone and the related brains structures of hearing and balance.