Our collaborative work on Cell-type identity of the avian utricle! VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Congrats Robert Coffey, Martha Shrubsole & Ken Lau Lab on your $5 million National Cancer Institute grant to study precancerous lesions and early cancers in the colon, with the goal of developing new ways to prevent colorectal cancer, the nation’s 2nd leading cancer killer. news.vumc.org/2022/09/22/col…

#SciArt for #NPYHM: Section of an embryonic mouse inner ear. 📷 #NIDCDgrantee Drs. Brent Wilkerson, Taha Jan, & Mirko Scheibinger, Stanford Medicine

Congratulations to Abel P. David on his Otology/Neurotology fellowship match at the Mass Eye and Ear to start in July 2023!

Congratulations to Angela Ling and a very large team to bringing this to the (almost) finish line! Single-cell transcriptomic atlas reveals increased regeneration in diseased human inner ears biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Stanford Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery bioRxiv bioRxiv Cell Biology

Aravind Govindaraju's paper in PNAS models how non-quantal transmission arises from the unusual morphology and ion channel complements at the vestibular hair cell synapse

The 2023 Inaugural Research Trainee Retreat was held last Friday, May 12th! The event provided trainees with an opportunity for professional development through presentations of research and interactions with fellow researchers, faculty, and outside speakers.

Congratulations to Sarah Easow for her co-authorship on this recently published collaborative work! VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations to Angela Ling for her co-authorship on this recently published collaborative paper! "An essential signaling cascade for avian auditory hair cell regeneration." VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery authors.elsevier.com/c/1iHu15Sx5gtx…

#SciArt for #NSLHM: A mouse cochlea (purple) grown in cell culture, and neurons (orange) that send information from the cochlea to the brain. Credit: #NIDCDgrantee Dr. Taha A. Jan, and Dr. Mirko Scheibinger, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)

Congrats to Angela Ling & Ruiqi Zhou and all who contributed to this collaborative work!!! VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Cheng Lab Stanford Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery nature.com/articles/s4146…

We kicked off day 2 of our #Research Symposium with a wonderful presentation from Dr. Debara Tucci on "Global Impact of Hearing Loss, and Efforts to Improve Accessibility" NIH Justin Turner #HearingLoss #MedicalResearch #ENT #NIH

Everyone who came to our Vanderbilt Surgeon Scientist Symposium- THANK YOU. Great faculty and inspirational residents and junior faculty.

*Assessing MCID values for 3CochlearImplant related speech recognition scores enables better patient counseling and interpretation of implant outcomes. Ankita Patro, MD, MS Taha Jan Lab Kareem Tawfik, MD marc bennett René Gifford David Haynes Naweed Chowdhury, MD journals.lww.com/otology-neurot…

Congratulations to Chisako Tanaka and Andie DeFreese for their 2025 ARO Travel Awards!! Andie DeFreese VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery @VUMCHearSpeech 🎉

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Sushobhan Biswas for being awarded the American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) Discovery Grant!!! Sushobhan Biswas VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery American Hearing RF @EBCVanderbilt american-hearing.org/purpose-impact…

Congratulations to Abel David and team for this recently published collaborative work from our lab! "Crosstalk Signaling Between the Epithelial and Non-Epithelial Compartments of the Mouse Inner Ear" link.springer.com/article/10.100… @JARO_News VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Cheng Lab

Our faculty will be presenting on various topics revolving around VS treatment and management at this year's World Vestibular Schwannoma Awareness Day event this Saturday! You can register to attend here: eventbrite.com/e/2025-world-v…