To prevent an antibiotic from causing hearing loss, researchers team up to design new drugs
May 29th, 2018
Biophysicist Anthony Ricci, PhD, seems to spend a lot of time worrying about premature babies going deaf. It’s not because he has a deaf child, or because he’s a doctor who treats premature babies. He’s not that kind of a doctor. But Ricci, a professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, and a self-confirmed lab rat, has seen firsthand how certain life-saving antibiotics can wreak havoc on what is his area of expertise — the inner ear.
