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A Powerhouse of Deafness Research By virtue of an agreement finalized in February 2004 between Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, CID scientists joined scientists in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery to add to a powerhouse of hearing and deafness research. Washington University faculty members in the Department of Otolaryngology and the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences conduct research, provide clinical care and operate graduate degree programs in deaf education, audiology and communication sciences as part of CID at Washington University School of Medicine. CID at Washington University School of Medicine programs are affiliated with, but financially independent from, Central Institute for the Deaf (CID). Work continues in state-of-the-art biological laboratories of the Fay and Carl Simons Center for Biology of Hearing and Deafness and the Center for Childhood Deafness and Adult Aural Rehabilitation, contained within the Harold W. Siebens Hearing Research Center, built in the late 1990s as part of the $32 million capital campaign at CID. Current deafness research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) includes research on age-related hearing loss by Jianxin Bao, PhD, who is exploring possible stem cell therapies for hearing loss, underlying molecular mechanisms for and drugs that may delay age-related hearing loss. Bao recently received his fourth NIH grant. baoj@ent.wustl.edu
Kevin K. Ohlemiller, PhD
studies the mechanisms of cochlear injury and age-related hearing loss. His
recent NIH-funded work indicates that strains of mice resistant to age-related
hearing loss may be better research models than mice typically used as models of
age-related loss. Ohlemiller also collaborates with St. Louis University
scientists examining genetic mutations affecting hearing. ohlemillerk@ent.wustl.edu Mark E. Warchol, PhD continues NIH-funded work to identify cellular mechanisms regulating survival and regeneration of sensory hair cells in the inner ear. Warchols focus is on re-growing damaged hair cells, a process that takes place in birds. warcholm@ent.wustl.edu Also with NIH funding, Dwayne D. Simmons, PhD studies synaptic activity in the inner ear, particularly as it develops and in response to exposure to noise. Simmons is the director of the inner ear research core in the Harold W. Siebens Hearing Research Center. simmonsd@ent.wustl.edu Center for Childhood Deafness and Adult Aural Rehabilitation scientists continue to work on the CID campus as members of the CID at Washington University School of Medicine group, often doing deaf education research in cooperations with teachers and staff at the Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) auditory-oral school. Lisa S. Davidson, PhD, coordinator of pediatric audiology at Central Institute for the Deaf hearing aid and cochlear implant programming davidsonl@ent.wustl.edu Johanna G. Nicholas, PhD language acquisition in deaf children, age of cochlear implantation in deaf infants nicholasj@ent.wustl.edu Nancy Tye Murray, PhD auditory and visual perception in children and adults murrayn@ent.wustl.edu Rosalie M. Uchanski, PhD deaf children's speech uchanskir@ent.wustl.edu Conducting additional auditory and vestibular research at the Harold W. Siebens Hearing Research Center and additional Department of Otolaryngology locations are the following CID at Washington University School of Medicine scientists: Richard Chole, MD, PhD head, department of otolaryngology - head and neck surgery and Lindburg Professor destructive diseases of the middle ear rchole@wustl.edu Barbara Bohne, PhD and Gary Harding, MSE anatomy, physiology and pathology of the inner ear bohneb@ent.wustl.edu hardingg@ent.wustl.edu Mary Pashia Basse, MS bacterial biofilms in cholesteatomas bassem@ent.wustl.edu Judith Cho-Lieu, MD unilateral hearing loss in children cholieuj@ent.wustl.edu Brian Faddis, PhD mechanisms of tissue destruction in middle ear disease faddisb@ent.wustl.edu Joel Goebel, MD posture and vestibulo-ocular motor control goebelj@ent.wustl.edu Stephen Highstein, MD, PhD and Pablo Blazquez, PhD vestibulo-ocular reflex and motor learning highsteins@ent.wustl.edu blazquezp@ent.wustl.edu Timothy Holden, BSE data analysis and research design holdent@ent.wustl.edu Laura Holden optimizing cochlear implant recipients ability to understand speech holdenl@ent.wustl.edu Timothy Hullar, MD vestibular physiology hullart@ent.wustl.edu J. Gail Neely, MD middle ear transducer neely@ent.wustl.edu Jay Piccirillo, MD clinical epidemiology and outcomes, tinnitus piccirilloj@ent.wustl.edu Alex Salt, PhD inner ear fluid interactions salta@ent.wustl.edu Margaret Skinner, PhD cochlear implantation and rehabilitation skinnerm@ent.wustl.edu Ruediger Thalmann, MD and Isolde Thalmann, PhD inner ear biochemistry and molecular biology thalmannr@ent.wustl.edu thalmanni@ent.wustl.edu Michael Valente, PhD hearing aids valentem@ent.wustl.edu All CID at Washington University School of Medicine scientists listed have faculty appointments. The Harold W. Siebens Hearing Research Center, the Spencer T. Olin Hearing Clinic, the Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences and the CID auditory-oral school are located on the CID campus, 4560 Clayton Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110. |
Today, the tradition of hearing and deafness research is carried forward by the world-class Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine.
CID teachers and staff often work closely with scientists at CID at Washington University School of Medicine, a financially independent affiliate of Central Institute for the Deaf.
Opportunities for collaborative research studies with the possible participation of staff and school children can be discussed with
Andrea Osman aosman@cid.edu
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