Dr. Ron Eavey, Director of the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences and the Guy M. Maness Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology in collaboration with Dr. Jonathan Seidman of Harvard University’s genetics department, had a grant application that was selected through the Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program titled, “The Genetics of Microtia in Hispanic Populations” to go forward, as part of the 2018 sequencing pipeline. The program will support the genetic sequencing of approximately 400 samples. The grant awarded will provide sequencing done by the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. Drs. Eavey and Seidman hope to find a gene in common that may lead to causing Microtia.