Faculty

Julie Arenberg

Julie_Arenberg@MEEI.HARVARD.EDU

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

The Emerging Auditory Research Lab, led by Dr. Julie Arenberg, aims to improve the speech perception abilities of both paediatric and adult cochlear implant users. Our research uses a translational approach, using basic science to assess cochlea health...

Zheng-Yi Chen

zheng-yi_chen@meei.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (HMS Otolaryn Head Neck Surgery)

Dr. Chen's laboratory is dedicated to developing treatments for hearing loss, spanning genetic, noise-induced, and age-related forms across all ages. Genetic hearing loss affects over 26 million people worldwide, while age-related hearing loss impacts...

Jeffrey Cheng

tao_cheng@meei.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Dr. Jeffrey Tao Cheng’s primary research interests are in the area of structure and function relations of normal and pathological ears, as well as damage of the ear and how to repair it for hearing restoration. Dr. Cheng’s laboratory uses newly developed...

David Corey

dcorey@hms.harvard.edu

Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science

We are interested in the gating of mechanically sensitive ion channels, which open in response to force on the channel proteins. We study these channels primarily in vertebrate hair cells—the receptor cells of the inner ear, which are sensitive to sounds...

Albert Edge

albert_edge@meei.harvard.edu

Eaton-Peabody Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

My lab works on regeneration and the complex molecular signaling in cell fate determination. We are interested in sensory biology and the rebuilding of damaged sensory circuits. The hair cells of the cochlea are epithelial cells, specialized for the...

Evelina Fedorenko

evelina9@mit.edu

Associate professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT

Language is one of the few uniquely human cognitive abilities and a foundation of human culture and civilization. What cognitive and neural mechanisms enable us to produce and understand language? A broad array of brain regions have been implicated in...

Michale Fee

fee@mit.edu

Glen V. and Phyllis F. Dorflinger Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Michale Fee studies how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors, focusing on the songbird as a model system. Birdsong is a complex behavior that young birds learn from their fathers and it provides an ideal system to study the neural...

Ramon A. Franco

ramon_franco@meei.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Dr. Ramon Franco, Jr., is a board-certified otolaryngologist who sees patients with voice, swallowing, and breathing-related difficulties. His clinical and research interests include laryngology, medical and surgical care of the professional voice, and...

Dennis M Freeman

freeman@mit.edu

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor Freeman’s research is aimed at understanding the cellular and molecular origins of the remarkable properties of human hearing. Human hearing is sensitive: we can detect sounds that vibrate the eardrum less than the diameter of a hydrogen atom...

Nadine Gaab

nadine_gaab@gse.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Education

The GaabLab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education focuses on auditory and language processing in the human brain and its applications for the development of typical and atypical language and literacy skills from infancy to adolescence. The GaabLab...

John D. E. Gabrieli

gabrieli@mit.edu

Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

John Gabrieli's goal is to understand the organization of memory, thought, and emotion in the human brain. By combining brain imaging with behavioral tests, he studies the neural basis of these abilities in human subjects. In collaboration with clinical...

Gwenaëlle Géléoc

gwenaelle.geleoc@childrens.harvard.edu

Program Director, Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT)

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Sensory hair cells of the inner ear transduce mechanical stimuli into electrical signals which are transmitted to the brain. The primary goal of my research is to characterize the functional and molecular development of these inner ear hair cells. In...