Current Research

• Cochlear immunity
• Inflammatory responses to cochlear stress
• Cochlear immune cells
• Immune control for reduction of cochlear stress responses
• Biological/molecular mechanisms and prevention of sensory cell death
• Acoustic trauma, aging-related cochlear degeneration, and genetic cochlear degeneration

 

Completed Research

• NIH/NIDCD R01DC010154
• Title: Noise-induced acute hair cell death

• National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation (NOHR)
• Title: Cell death pathways involved in compression/decompression stress-induced apoptosis of hair cells subject to acoustic trauma

• NIH/NIDCD RO3
• Title: Apoptotic and Necrotic Death of OHCs in NIHL

• National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation (NOHR)
• Title: Prophylactice effects of Src kinase inhibition on noise-induced hair cell death and hearing loss.

 

 

 

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