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.
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.
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.