The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has received a five-year, $12 million grant renewal from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The grant renewal will enable researchers to advance their work in development of a hybrid cochlear implant. Scientists are now not only looking at restoring hearing to a large number of patients, but determining how people separate speech from noise, which is a major problem of the hearing impaired. The research will examine patients on an individual basis, helping researchers to understand why one person hears things differently than another. To read a Business Record story about Iowa businesspeople who have had cochlear implants, click here.