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AHRF Researcher Helps Ramp Up Hair Cell Production

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…

AHRF Funds Six Projects for 2010

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…

An Update from 2010 Grant Recipient Nicole Schmitt, MD University of Washington, Seattle

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…

AHRF Grant Recipient Focuses on Making Connections in the Inner Ear

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…

AHRF Funded Research 2009

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,…

Difference in Metabolic Rates Could be Responsible for Increased Cell Death Among Outer Hair Cells as Compared to Inner Hair Cells in Response to Trauma

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…

AHRF Awards Wiley H. Harrison Grant to Matthew Bush, MD to Study Vestibular Schwannomas

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…

An Update from 2009 AHRF Grant Recipient Lisa Potts, PhD

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…

AHRF Funded Research 2008

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…

“Characterization of a de novo Protein Expressed in the Mammalian Cochlea.” Jing Zheng, PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Sensory hair cells deep within the inner ear convert the mechanical force of sound waves into signals that travel along the auditory neurons to give rise to the sensation of hearing in the brain. A microscopic formation called the mechano-electric…