March, 2012 — Anna Lysakowski, PhD, a member of the AHRF Research Committee and a 2012 AHRF grant recipient, is focusing on a structure found in inner ear hair cells called the striated organelle. Lysakowski, at the University of Illinois,…
March, 2012 — Stephen Maricich, MD, PhD, of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, is looking at how a geneactive in the auditory regions of the brain during embryonic development may affect hearing and hearing loss. His research, funded by the…
MAY 2011 – The American Hearing Research Foundation has added Sam Marzo, MD, to its board of directors. Dr. Marzo is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Loyola University Health System of Chicago. He…
AHRF Selects Five Grants for Funding in 2012 The American Hearing Research Foundation has selected five grants to fund in 2012. The foundation received 35 research grant proposals this year. These grants are for $20,000 for one year of research…
October 2011 – AHRF-funded researchers Qiong Wang, PhD, and Steven Green, PhD, both at the University of Iowa, have found that damage caused by exposure to loud noises in the inner ear may occur long before changes in hearing are perceived. They…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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