Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Faculty Member, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Investigating integrated systems biology of hearing restoration
John Brigande, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Oregon Health & Science University
Developing methods to control gene expression in the inner ear; identifying genes critical for development of the ear.
Alain Dabdoub, Ph.D.
Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Discovering and characterizing the molecular signaling factors responsible for the development of the mammalian inner ear.
Albert Edge, Ph.D.
Professor of Otolaryngology, Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
Researching stem cells and the basic mechanisms of cellular repair in the nervous system; studying the loss of sensory cells in the inner ear that result in deafness due to excessive noise, drugs, disease, or aging.
Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D.
Scientific Director, Hearing Restoration Project; Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Studying how neural circuits develop and function
Andy Groves, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
Using the inner ear as a model system to address fundamental questions in developmental biology and regeneration; using chick embryology and mouse genetics to address these problems.
Stefan Heller, Ph.D.
Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University
Developing solutions for reversing sensory hair cell loss in the mammalian cochlea using stem cell-based approaches.
Ronna Hertzano, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator and Chief, Neurotology Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Identifying targets for prevention of age and noise/ototoxic induced hearing loss and developing tools for sharing and presenting gene expression data.
Tatjana Piotrowski, Ph.D.
Associate Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Determining how the zebrafish inner ear induces hair cell regeneration.
David Raible, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Structure, University of Washington
Examining how neural crest cells, like those in the zebrafish lateral line, develop.
Yehoash Raphael, Ph.D.
R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan
Determining how to restore hair cells and hearing in deaf guinea pigs by injecting into the inner ear a gene that triggers the growth of hair cells during embryonic development.
Jennifer Stone, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Washington
Investigating cellular and molecular mechanisms guiding embryonic and post-embryonic production of sensory hair cells in birds.
Litao Tao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University
Investigating the role of epigenetic repression in the silencing of sensory hair cell programming in the supporting cells of the mammalian cochlea
Mark Warchol, Ph.D.
Professor of Otolaryngology,
Washington University School
of Medicine
Examining development and
regeneration of sensory receptors
and afferent neurons in the
inner ear.