This is an unofficial list of organizations and universities conducting or funding misophonia research. This list is not exhaustive and may have inaccuracies.
Organizations Funding Misophonia Research
Misophonia Research Fund and REAM Foundation
The Misophonia Research Fund is a dedicated funder of research into misophonia’s mechanisms, assessment, and treatment. Its funding programs include investigator awards, postdoctoral awards, seed-data grants, and collaborative research awards.
MRF is an initiative of the REAM Foundation, so the two should be understood as connected entities rather than separate grant programs. Its funded-project directory is also a useful resource for identifying researchers and institutions working in the field. www.misophoniaresearchfund.org
soQuiet
soQuiet offers graduate student research grants for work on misophonia, misokinesia, and related sensory conditions. It also supports research through its participant registry and research network, helping connect researchers with people interested in participating in studies. www.soquiet.org
Wellcome and NIHR
Wellcome and the National Institute for Health and Care Research have supported published misophonia research. Funding acknowledgements for the UK S-Five prevalence study identify Wellcome and the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London.
These are broader research funders; their involvement does not mean they offer dedicated misophonia grant competitions. journals.plos.org
Leverhulme Trust
The Leverhulme Trust funds an aural-diversity doctoral research hub involving Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Salford. The hub’s scope explicitly includes misophonia alongside other differences in hearing and auditory experience. www.gold.ac.uk
Other Documented Funding Sources
The Harrods Creek Donor Advised Fund is acknowledged as a supporter of research on mental health difficulties in children who develop misophonia. The University of Surrey’s Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Research Support Fund funded development and validation of the Misophonia Response Scale. These are documented funding contributions rather than verified open grant opportunities. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Universities and Medical Institutions Researching Misophonia
Institutions With Misophonia Research Fund Awards
MRF’s grant portfolio documents research involvement at the following institutions. The portfolio includes awards across multiple years, so individual projects may be ongoing or completed.
In Canada, these include Concordia University and Western University, also listed under its formal name, the University of Western Ontario.
In the United States, they include:
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Duke University
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Johns Hopkins University
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Medical University of South Carolina
- New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of Connecticut
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Iowa
- University of Mississippi
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of South Carolina
- University of South Florida
- University of Washington
- Utah State University
- Yale University
Elsewhere, the portfolio includes King’s College London and the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Tel Aviv University in Israel. www.misophoniaresearchfund.org
Dedicated Centres and Research Groups
The Duke Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation conducts laboratory and clinical research, develops assessment tools, and studies misophonia’s relationship with emotion regulation. It also collaborates with researchers internationally. psychiatry.duke.edu
At King’s College London, the misophonia Clinical Academic Research Group, or mCARG, brings together researchers from several disciplines. Its work includes the S-Five assessment instrument, psychometrics, and prevalence research. www.kcl.ac.uk
The University of Sussex’s Centre for Sensory and Perceptual Diversity includes misophonia within its research on sensory differences and development. www.sussex.ac.uk
Additional UK Institutions
The University of Oxford has contributed to misophonia prevalence and clinical research, including work involving clinical psychologist Jane Gregory. www.ox.ac.uk
Newcastle University and University College London, including the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, contributed to foundational studies of misophonia’s brain and motor-system mechanisms. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The University of Surrey has published research on assessment and lived experience, including development of the Misophonia Response Scale. The University of Nottingham, including researchers affiliated with the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, has contributed prevalence research, assessment validation, and evidence reviews. openresearch.surrey.ac.uk
Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Salford’s Acoustics Research Centre participate in the broader aural-diversity research hub whose scope includes misophonia. www.gold.ac.uk
Additional Institutions in the Netherlands
Amsterdam UMC has contributed diagnostic and treatment research, including research involving children and adolescents. Levvel, the Academic Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital also appear in published child and adolescent misophonia research. pure.amsterdamumc.nl
Institutions in TĂĽrkiye and Iran
Hacettepe University, including its Stress Assessment and Research Center, has conducted population-based research on misophonia prevalence in Ankara, TĂĽrkiye. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran has published research on misophonia prevalence and its associations with obsessive-compulsive symptoms, anxiety, and depression. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Other Institutions Involved Through Research Collaborations
Duke’s published collaboration directory identifies additional institutions involved in its international research relationships. These collaborations vary in scope and should not all be interpreted as dedicated misophonia research centres.
In Asia, the directory includes the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing in India, the Provincial Brain Hospital in Changsha, Hunan, and Duke Kunshan University in China. The hospital collaboration concerns prevalence and clinical correlates in a psychiatric population; Duke Kunshan’s involvement includes undergraduate research participation. psychiatry.duke.edu
In the United States, additional collaborators include the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine and the University of Texas at Austin. psychiatry.duke.edu
In Europe, the directory includes Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, the University of Warsaw in Poland, and two Italian institutions: Centro per la Ricerca in Psicoterapia, or CRP, and the International Center for Psychology and Strategic Psychotherapy, or CIPPS. psychiatry.duke.edu
Independent Organizations and Research Networks
International Misophonia Foundation
The International Misophonia Foundation describes its research role as conducting and facilitating original research, providing consultation and publication assistance, and offering ethical oversight. Its website also describes plans to provide research grants as funding and projects become available. That funding role should be distinguished from an established, continuously available grant program. misophoniaresearch.com
Misophonia Research Network
The Misophonia Research Network, formerly the International Misophonia Research Network, is now part of soQuiet. It should therefore be listed as a research network within soQuiet rather than counted as a separate current organization. misophoniaresearch.net
soQuiet Research Pool
The soQuiet Research Pool is a participant registry that supports recruitment for misophonia studies. Its contribution is research infrastructure: helping researchers reach potential participants. www.soquiet.org