2021 Lab News

Dec 2021 | The US Department of Defense Hearing Restoration Program highlighted the development of a miniature imaging probe by Tina's team to visualize cellular pathology in the inner ear.

Oct 2021 | Minjin Jeong is first author on the paper titled "Direct SARS-CoV-2 infection of the human inner ear may underlie COVID-19-associated audiovestibular dysfunction", published in Communications Medicine, a Nature journal. The paper is featured in MIT news  has received world-wide press coverage and remains in the 99th percentile of the hundreds of thousands of tracked articles of a similar age.

Jul 2021 | Sasha Vasilijic is co-first author on the paper titled "Losartan prevents tumor-induced hearing loss and augments radiation efficacy in NF2 schwannoma rodent models", published in Science Translational Medicine.

The paper receives world-wide press coverage: 

Jun 2021 | Our lab moves to Stanford after many good years at Harvard/ Massachusetts Eye and Ear.

Apr 2021 | Tina delivers honorary John Niparko, MD Memorial Lecture titled “Degeneration and Regeneration of the Inner Ear” at the annual meeting of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance.