• New Digs!

    After a long wait, our new home has arrived! The ultra-modern Biomedical Innovation Building (BMI) will host SICHL members on both the basement and 1st floors. We are looking forward to the modern wet and dry lab facilities, and the perks of being in a new building. The photos above show how an empty parking lot (left) was transformed into a sleekly-designed research powerhouse…

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    Looking Back At ARO Midwinter Meeting 2020

    Now that we are in the era of isolation and quarantine, it is nice to look back to a time when SICHL scientists were able to mingle with top hearing loss researchers from around the world at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology’s (ARO) 2020 Midwinter Meeting (MWM). Many topics were covered at the conference, reflecting the breadth of research conducted in the field of otolaryngology.

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    The Genetic Signature of the Dominant Form of Hearing Loss DFNA58

    Now that we are in the era of isolation and quarantine, it is nice to look back to a time when SICHL scientists were able to mingle with top hearing loss researchers from around the world at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology’s (ARO) 2020 Midwinter Meeting (MWM). Many topics were covered at the conference, reflecting the breadth of research conducted in the field of otolaryngology.

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    The Best Ways to Cope With a Noisy Office

    Rachel Becker reports, for The Verge, on her quest to cancel out distracting office noise in the safest and most effective way. She interviews SICHL’s Dr. Oghalai and Anthony Ricci, PhD, on their thoughts on a variety of methods for cancelling out ambient noise.

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    When the Dolphin Broke My Ear: Can Deaf People Recover Hearing?

    Reed discusses his own hearing loss and interviews Dr. Alan Cheng about the research to create regenerative cures for hearing loss, which is well underway at Stanford: “It’s going!”, he said enthusiastically, “You can see the results happening. We see re-growth of hair cells in the mouse balance organs. And the balance function appears to improve, according to how many hair cells come back.