Research
Research at the Ear Institute is truly interdisciplinary; studies aimed at understanding the genetic bases of human forms of deafness inform clinical investigations designed to provide early warning to individuals and families most susceptible to age-related or noise-induced hearing loss; investigations into the development of the inner ear, and its potential for repair and regeneration, cross the boundaries of individual research labs and ensure that progress in one discipline informs research in another. Laboratories investigating important functions in hearing that arise at different brain centres share resources, facilities and personnel. This interdisciplinary approach enables individual laboratories to pool their expertise, solving problems that may be too big for any one laboratory to solve. In addition, collaborations with partners in other UCL departments, centres and institutes, and across the world, ensure that research at the Ear Institute remains at the cutting edge.
Principal InvestigatorsÂ
Dr Joerg AlbertDr Joerg Albert is a Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience who is using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to study the molecular and mechanistic bases of hearing, specifically, the process of auditory transduction...
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Prof Jonathan AshmoreProf Jonathan Ashmore is the Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at UCL. His laboratory works on the cellular mechanisms of hearing with particular interest in the outer hair cells of the cochlea. |
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Dr Bradford BackusDr Bradford Backus is an Honorary Senior Research Associate who studies the basic properties of the human audio-cochlea system using oto-acoustic emissions...
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Dr Doris-Eva BamiouDr Doris-Eva Bamiou is a Clinical Senior Lecturer & Consultant in Audiovestibular
Medicine. Her research interests include auditory processing in
neurological patients and in the normal population.
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Prof Martin BirchallMartin Birchall is Professor or Laryngology and ENT Surgeon. He co-led the European Team which successfully performed the World’s first stem-cell based, tissue-engineered organ transplant.
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Dr Jennifer BizleyDr Jennifer Bizley Senior Research Fellow
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Dr Maria ChaitDr Maria Chait is a Marie Curie Experienced Research Fellow who is interested in how auditory sensory information is converted into a perceptual representation of our environment
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Dr Nicolas DaudetDr Nicolas Daudet is a Senior Lecturer examining molecular genetics of the Development and Regeneration of Sensory Hair Cells.
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Prof Adrian Davis OBEProf Davis is Director of the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme and an Honorary Professor at the Ear Institute
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Dr Sally DawsonDr Sally Dawson is a Lecturer in Molecular Audiology at UCL. Her research focuses on identifying susceptibility genes for age related hearing loss and the regulation of gene expression in hair cells of the inner ear. |
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Dr Lorraine EverettDr Lorraine Everett Clinical Training Fellow/NIHR
Clinical Lecturer (StR) in Audiovestibular Medicine
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Prof Andrew ForgeProf Andrew Forge is Professor of Auditory Cell Biology at the UCL Ear Institute. His main area of interest is looking at ways of regenerating auditory hair cells focussing particularly on their supporting cells.
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Dr Jonathan GaleDr Jonathan Gale is a Reader in Auditory Cell Biology. His research interests are centred on the repair and regeneration of hair cells after cell damage or loss.
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Dr Dan JaggerDr Dan Jagger is a Senior Lecturer. He studies membrane properties of spiral ganglion neurons and homeostatic regulation of the cochlea. |
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Prof David KempEmeritus Professor of Auditory Biophysics Prof David Kemp, discovered oto-acoustic emissions while working for UCL. Since then, he continues to be the utmost authority on the subject and pushes forward research in the area.
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Dr Nicholas LesicaDr Nicholas Lesica is a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow at UCL. He studies how auditory information is represented in the activity of neuronal populations. |
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Dr Jennifer LindenJennifer Linden is Lecturer in Auditory Neuroscience at UCL. Her research is geared towards understanding the cortical processing of complex sounds, including speech.
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Prof Alf LinneyProf Alf Linney is an Emeritus Professor of Medical Physics at UCL and recognised as a pioneer in the development and application of computer methods and imaging technology to surgery.
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Prof Valerie Lund CBEProfessor Lund is the first Professor of Rhinology in Great Britain. Her role as a clinician as well as an academic is reflected in her research interests; inflammation, infection and tumours of the nose and sinuses.
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Prof Linda LuxonProf Linda Luxon is Emeritus Professor of Audiological Medicine heading up the only academic AVM unit in the UK. Her research focuses on genetic hearing loss.
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Prof Paolo MacchiariniProf Paolo Macchiarini is a Visiting Professor
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Dr Torsten MarquardtDr Torsten Marquardt lectures in Auditory Biophysics at UCL. His research looks at the advantages and characteristics of binaural hearing and also cochlea mechanics using oto-acoustic emissions.
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Prof David McAlpineDavid McAlpine is Professor of Auditory Neuroscience and Director of the Ear Institute. His research focuses on binaural hearing, the ability to locate sound sources and listen in noisy backgrounds.
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Prof Shakeel SaeedProf Shakeel Saeed is Chair of Otology/Neuro-otology and Consultant ENT & Skullbase Surgeon, with research intersts in implantation otology, deafness genetics and facial nerve repair.
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Dr Roland SchaetteDr Roland Schaette Senior Research Fellow. He studies how tinnitus arises in computer models, animals, and humans.
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Prof Anne SchilderProf. Anne Schilder is Director of the Clinical Trials Programme (UCLP-ENT) and has been awarded the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) professorship for ENT Health Services Research
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Dr Debi VickersDebi Vickers is a Lecturer in Research Design and Statistics for Audiology and a
Principal Investigator in speech perception, binaural processing and
psychophysics of deafness and cochlear implantation.
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Prof Anthony WrightTony Wright is Emeritus Professor of Otolaryngology and Consultant ENT surgeon. Along side his many clinical duties, Prof Wright researches 3D reconstruction techniques of sectioned images.
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Dr Ifat YasinIfat Yasin lectures in Auditory Anatomy & Physiology and is researching auditory pattern-analysis, pitch perception, non-linearities and localisation using psychophysics and EEG.
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