Friday, February 21, 2025 • 2 to 6pm Reception follows Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld This symposium is sponsored by the American Hearing Research Foundation and the Hearing Health Foundation. Hosted by the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), it…
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AHRF Note: This story includes difficult content. Many – but not all – individuals who have Meniere’s disease are able to bring their symptoms under control. As Lauren Hedrick describes her grandfather’s experience, we’re reminded why it’s so important for…
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Anyone who has ever planted something from seed knows it takes time for the resulting plant to bear fruit. AHRF’s seed grants take time to bear fruit, too. In 2018, AHRF awarded a grant to Anna Lysakowski, professor in the…
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Spotlight on Kamal Sen, PhD Associate Professor and Director, Natural Sounds and Neural Coding Laboratory, Boston University and 2023 AHRF Grant Recipient “Most of what we know about the human brain comes from technologies like F MRI where people are…
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Spotlight on Justine Renauld, PhD Assistant Professor at Creighton University School of Medicine and 2021 AHRF Grant Recipient Article by Matsya Thulasiram “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.” This quote from Helen Keller has impacted the…
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Spotlight on Dwayne Simmons, PhD Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at Baylor University and 2021 AHRF Grant Recipient Article by Matsya Thulasiram “Science is a way of explaining the natural world that we see, and religion gives…
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Spotlight on Kathleen Yee, PhD Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center and 2021 AHRF Grant Recipient. Article by Matsya Thulasiram “I always felt that I was looking for the truth and that’s not really what you can get in…
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Elmhurst, Illinois – January 15, 2024 – The American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) announced the recipients of its 2024 research grants today. AHRF will award seven grants totaling just over $358,000 to investigators who are exploring how we hear and how we…
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Spotlight on Parveen Bazard, PhD Research Assistant Professor, University of South Florida Recipient of AHRF’s 2023 Richard G. Muench Chairman’s Grant Hearing research involves many disciplines, such as genetics, biochemistry, and audiology. Parveen Bazard entered the field through nano-science and laser…
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