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2021 AHRF Grant Recipients

Studio portrait of Dr Dhasakumar Navaratnam

Dhasakumar Navaratnam, MD, PhD

Yale University

Defining the molecular and cellular basis of Meniere’s disease using single cell RNA sequencing

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Michael Ghiam, MD

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Utility of Perilymph microRNA Sampling for Identification of Active Gene Expression Pathways in Sensorineural Hearing Loss

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Melinda Anderson, PhD, CCC-A

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Sex Differences in the Association between Hearing Loss and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Burden

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Stefania Goncalves, MD

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Laminin-coated Cochlear Implant Electrodes can Promote Schwan Cell Dedifferentitation, Migration and Guide Neural Axon Growth In Vitro

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Benjamin Johnson, MD

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center / Case Western Reserve University

Antimalarial Artesunate as a Novel Treatment to Mitigate Hearing Loss Associated with Usher Syndrome Type IIIA

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Habib G. Rizk, MD

Medical University of South Carolina

Assessing the Efficacy of a Serotonin and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor for Improving Meniere’s Disease Outcomes

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Matthew T. Maksimoski, MD

Northwestern University

Long term outcomes from gamma knife treatment for vestibulocochlear nerve schwannomas in a large, tertiary care, academic hospital

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Tal Teitz, PhD

Creighton University

Repurposing an FDA Approved Drug Dabrafenib for Protection from Noise-induced Hearing Loss

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Cody Jeu, MD

University of Illinois at Chicago

A cochlear implant simulation study to determine the effects of transposing frequencies on binaural benefits

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Monita Chatterjee, PhD

Boys Town National Research Hospital

Age-Related Changes in the Perception of Emotional Speech with Cochlear Implants

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Jing Zheng, PhD

Northwestern University

Investigating functions of a cilium protein in vestibular system

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Rachael Baiduc, PhD, MPH

University of Colorado Boulder

Sex Differences in the Association between Hearing Loss and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Burden

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Allison B. Coffin, PhD

Washington State University

AMPA receptor-mediated glutamate excitotoxicity and noise-induced synaptic damage

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Making new discoveries possible for more than 60 years