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...
Dr. Richardson directs the Brain Modulation Lab, a human systems neuroscience lab studying brain electrophysiology and behavior in patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy, movement disorders, and psychiatric disease. A major focus of the lab’s work is...
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...
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...
Functional complexity of a neural circuit depends on features of its component neurons such as spiking characteristics, total number, synaptic structures, and connectivity. In addition to varying across the many nodes of a neural circuit, these neuronal...
Dr. Bradley Welling’s clinical and research interests focus primarily on NF2-associated vestibular schwannomas and the hearing loss, disequilibrium and facial paralysis that may result from the disease.
In 1996, Dr. Welling and his collaborators published...
The cochlea sends signals to the brain by two types of sensory neurons, and is controlled by two neuronal feedback systems. The Liberman lab studies the neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of all four neuronal pathways in normal and damaged ears. Our work on...
Dr. Sharon Kujawa's research is focused on noise-induced and age-related hearing losses, the most common forms of hearing loss seen in adult patients. Her work seeks to clarify how normal inner ear structures and functions are altered by aging and by...
The Koehler Lab focuses on understanding the development and regeneration of sensory organs. Our primary goal is to elucidate how cells from various layers of the developing embryo converge to form a functioning sense organ. We believe such basic...
Dr. Jung's current research focuses on the development of novel methods for cochlear drug delivery and understanding mechanisms of noise- and age-related hearing loss.
