Category Archives: AHRF News

Vestibular Implant May Help People With Meniere’s Disease

Researchers at The University of Washington, Seattle, have placed a modified cochlear implant into the inner ear of a 56 …

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New Completely Implantable Hearing Aid Can Help Significantly Improve Hearing

In late 2010, the FDA approved a new hearing device called the Envoy Esteem. The Esteem is a fully implantable …

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AHRF Researcher Helps Ramp Up Hair Cell Production

Kelvin Kwan, Ph.D., Instructor in Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, has been investigating ways to create large amounts of …

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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 …

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An Update from 2010 Grant Recipient Nicole Schmitt, M.D. University of Washington, Seattle

Nicole Schmitt, M.D., Resident Physician in Otolaryngology, has been looking into the effects of a common chemotherapy drug called cisplatin, …

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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. …

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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 …

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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, Ph.D., of Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, and colleagues describe differences in response to aminoglycoside among …

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

The American Hearing Research Foundation has awarded the Wiley H. Harrison, M.D. grant to Matthew Bush, M.D., of Ohio State …

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An Update from 2009 AHRF Grant Recipient Lisa Potts, Ph.D.

Lisa Potts, Ph.D., research instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Instructor for the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences …

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