October 2011 – Tara Rachakonda, MD of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, is working on developing a unique hearing-related quality of life assessment for adolescents with hearing loss, the Hearing Environments and Reflection on Quality of Life Questionnaire, or…
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Kelvin Kwan, PhD, Instructor in Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, has been investigating ways to create large amounts of hair cells needed for research and cell-based therapies. One of the challenges in hair cell research is the difficulty in…
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For 2010, the American Hearing Research Foundation will be funding six grants. This year, we received the highest number of grant proposals in our history—41 proposals in all. The following grants will begin on January 1, 2010, and will be…
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Nicole Schmitt, MD, Resident Physician in Otolaryngology, has been looking into the effects of a common chemotherapy drug called cisplatin, on hearing. Cisplatin has been given to treat head and neck cancers, lung, and other cancers for decades, however, one…
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Joseph Clarke, MD, of the University of Iowa is the 2010 CORE grant recipient for the American Hearing Research Foundation. Dr. Clarke is interested in using polymer (plastic) forms to help guide spiral ganglion neurons in the inner ear to…
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2009 Research Grants Awarded Lawrence Lustig, MD, “The role of synucleins in the mammalian cochlea” University of California at San Francisco Takako Kondo, PhD, “A novel stem cell replacement therapy for damaged spiral ganglion neurons” Indiana University School of Medicine,…
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OMAHA—Richard Hallworth, PhD, of Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, and colleagues describe differences in response to aminoglycoside among inner and outer cochlear hair cells in the March 6 issue of the journal Brian Research. Dr. Hallworth’s research was…
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The American Hearing Research Foundation has awarded the Wiley H. Harrison, MD grant to Matthew Bush, MD, of Ohio State University, Columbus for his research proposal entitled, “In vitro and in vivo response to HDAC inhibitors by vestibular schwannomas.” The…
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Lisa Potts, PhD, research instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Instructor for the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine, has been studying how sound is processed by the hearing nerve. She recently completed…
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American Hearing Research Foundation Selects 5 Research Projects to Fund for 2008 On October 16, 2007, the American Hearing Research Foundation Research Committee selected five research projects from more than 30 submitted this year, to fund in 2008. “This year…
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