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Masked Research
Like everyone else on the planet, Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss (SICHL) researchers have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the shelter-in-place phase, each lab determined the minimal work required to pause the research enterprise, such as maintaining strains of animals or cell cultures. A limited number of researchers were authorized to access the campus to minimize person-to-person interaction.
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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.
