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Category Archives: NOHR Research News
NOHR Announces 10 New Scientific Grants of $20,000 each
2013 RESEARCH AWARDS Adding adaptation to cochlear implant signal processing to enhance dynamic speech features – This proposal hopes to further improve cochlear implant performance using a new implant signal processing algorithm. – Mahan Azadpour, Ph.D. (Syracuse University) Characterization of … Continue reading
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NOHR helps sponsor groundbreaking inner ear study related to regeneration
The article”Researchers identify forefunners of inner-ear cells than enable hearing” in R & D Magazine (2/26/2013) describes work by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Two of the researchers, Alan Cheng, M.D. and Stefan Heller, Ph.D., received a grant … Continue reading
Background Noise-Negative Health Effects
An article in the Health and Wellness section of The Wall Street Journal on December 4, 2012 reports on a study of background noise in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. Some participants exposed to different levels of … Continue reading
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Experimental success reported- use of stem cells to restore hearing loss from auditory nerve damage
REPORT OF RESEARCH SUCCESS IN TREATING AUDITORY NEUROPATHY MODEL IN GERBILS VIA STEM CELLS The journal Nature reports a study led by British scientists that restored hearing in one ear to deaf gerbils using human embryonic stem cells. The experiment … Continue reading
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Genetic Hearing Loss Research by Physician-Scientist at University of Miami
From the University of Miami Magazine, Fall 2012 issue “For decades, associate professor Xue Zhong Liu, M.D., Ph.D. director of research for the Department of Otolaryngology at the Miller School and an associate member of the John P. Hussman Institute … Continue reading
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Recommended Read: Nutrients and Hearing Loss
A great read featuring work by NOHR board member and good friend of Mrs. Fox, Josef M. Miller, PhD who works with the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Michigan Medical School - could nutrition prevent hearing loss after … Continue reading
Cord blood stem cells to be tested as a hearing loss treatment
Groundbreaking news about a clinical trial of the use of umbilical cord blood stem cells to help repair children’s hearing loss has been reported. The study will be conducted at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital (UTHealth) in Houston, Texas in association with Cord … Continue reading
New NOHR $20,000 Seed Money Grants Announced
2012 RESEARCH AWARDS $20,000 ONE-YEAR SEED MONEY GRANTS • Project: Improving bilateral cochlear implant patient performance investigation of new cochlear implant designs with the goal of improving wearers’ understanding of speech in difficult listening situations, such as noise Principal Investigator: … Continue reading
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NOHR 2012 Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration Research grant announced at NIDCD/NIH Regenerative Therapies Workshop-Geraldine Fox an invited guest participant
Geraldine Fox, NOHR President, returned on September 14th, 2011, from Bethesda, MD, where she was an invited guest at the NIDCD (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders) Regenerative Therapies Workshop on hair cell regeneration. Nancy Freeman, M.D. Division … Continue reading
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