June 10, 2020 June 16 Beyond the Lab speaker series: The promise of gene therapy for hearing and balance disorders All NIH staff and the public are welcome to view online  On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in an online lecture open to the public, Wade Chien, M.D., will discuss gene therapy research for hearing and balance disorders. The lecture is part of the Beyond the Lab, Understanding Communication Disorders speaker series, developed and hosted by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). Dr. Chien is an otolaryngology surgeon-scientist in the NIDCD Inner Ear Gene Therapy Program. His lab is using gene therapy techniques in mice to try to stop the symptoms of hearing and balance disorders—and to treat or reverse damage to the inner ear caused by gene mutations. Speaker: Wade Chien, M.D., otolaryngology surgeon-scientist in the NIDCD Inner Ear Gene Therapy Program When: Tuesday, June 16, 2020, noon-1p.m. Where: NIH videocast Read more » Health Information Hearing, ear infections, etc. Balance Taste and smell Voice, speech, and language Popular Topics Do you need a hearing test? Ear infections Tinnitus Stuttering NIDCD now offers an easy way for you to get trusted, up-to-date content for your website. Learn more about content syndication >> The NIDCD, part of the National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts research and research training on the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language and provides health information, based upon scientific discovery, to the public. For more information about NIDCD programs, see our website at www.nidcd.nih.gov. NIH...Turning Discovery Into Health® U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)  National Institutes of Health (NIH)

 

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