Our recent research journey

We want a world where no one suffers from tinnitus. This means helping people to manage their tinnitus now and, ultimately, finding a cure. We’ve been working hard over the last few years to make sure that we can evidence how urgent this is, and to make sure that we’re in the best position to be able to do this.

Our progress so far

2017 – led on and published a paper on the economic impact of tinnitus
2018 – developed a cure map to identify how to find a cure and what to prioritise
2019 – identified key barriers to finding a cure in our ‘Why is there no cure for tinnitus’ paper
2019 – set the five research funding priorities that we’re looking to invest in
2020 – held a tinnitus roundtable event at the House of Commons
2020 – published our Tinnitus Manifesto, which we’re using to lobby for increased research funding and capacity
2020 – more than 115,000 of you are helping us show how urgent this is by signing our petition

What’s next?

We’ve had 9 excellent applications to our research fund but without additional funding most of these won’t happen.

AND

We want to develop a Tinnitus Biobank (a database of health information) for a long-term study into factors associated with tinnitus.

We need your help!

Help us to understand tinnitus in order to cure tinnitus

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