Deafness Research UK is pleased to announce funding of two fellowships in the laboratory of Professor Brian Moore at Cambridge University.

 

 Scientist, Dr Bob Carlyon from the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, has signed himself up to cycle from London to Brighton on

11^th September, hoping to raise as much money as he can for Deafness Research UK.

Dr. Phillip Gander of the NIHR National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing, Nottingham has been awarded the Deafness Research UK’s 2011 Pauline Ashley Prize.

Leading scientists and clinicians investigating genetic issues and stem cell treatments affecting hearing discussed their research at the Recent Advances in Molecular Biology of Otology symposium hosted by Deafness Research UK in London on the 21st March 2011.

Grant awards made at the April meeting of the Deafness Research UK Research Sub-Committee

Following the success last year of the first Recent Advances in Paediatric Audiology (RAPA) meeting, which was designed specifically to increase interaction and knowledge sharing between the clinic and the laboratory in the field of paediatric audiology, a second RAPA meeting was held in London in March as part of the NHS National Knowledge Week for Hearing.

Deafness Research UK has awarded two 3-year PhD studentships to begin in October 2010. These studentships offer the exciting opportunity for two young scientists to begin a career in hearing research in two world-class institutions.

Deafness Research UK is sponsoring the Recent Advances in Paediatric Audiology (RAPA) symposium, to be held on 15th March 2010 to coincide with the National Knowledge Week for Hearing.

'A Modern Approach to Noise-Induced Hearing Loss from Military Operations' brought together interested parties from the armed forces, the NHS, academic research and the voluntary sector to share and update knowledge of the science relevant to noise induced hearing loss and the practical problems faced during military operations.

The Deafness Research UK Pauline Ashley Prize 2010 has been awarded to Nick Leach, a PhD student at the University of Oxford, for his highly commended and ongoing research into how the hearing brain adapts to different sounds.

Call for applications – Closing date: Thursday 22nd October 2009

Deafness Research UK held a groundbreaking children’s audiology forum on 16th March at the New Connaught Rooms in London. Recent advances in paediatric audiology (RAPA) was the first of what is hoped will become an annual event to mark National Knowledge Week for Hearing.

The National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing was launched today in Nottingham.

The 2nd Deafness Research UK UCL Ear Institute Fellowship was awarded to Dr Joerg Albert, who joined the Institute from the University of Cologne.

Last month saw the annual British Society of Audiology (BSA) Short Papers Meeting of Experimental Studies on Hearing and Deafness. The UK’s hearing research community descended on the Psychology Department at the University of York for two days of talks, poster presentations and catching-up with the latest experimental data.

The Deafness Research UK Pauline Ashley Prize 2009 has been awarded to Rosemary Lovett, a third year Psychology PhD student at the University of York.

Deafness Research UK has re-vamped its travel award scheme in order to make the application process more straightforward.

Competition for this year's vacation scholarships was extremely tough and Deafness Research UK is very pleased to announce that this year’s awards will go to four highly promising young students.

Deafness Research UK recently awarded a scholarship to Salma Mahmood, an audiology student at Aston University, to study the way in which the brain processes echoes. The work, carried out with Dr Bernhard Seeber at Nottingham's MRC Institute of Hearing Research, is important for understanding how we localize sounds indoors.

This year's Pauline Ashley Prize has been awarded to Dr Lucy Anderson, a junior postdoctoral researcher working at University College London's Ear Institute.

The Pauline Ashley Prize 2007 has been awarded to Sam Irving, a young researcher at the MRC Institute for Hearing Research in Nottingham, who is looking for the region of the brain that helps us to hear someone in a noisy place, such as a party or bar, and is responsible for 'training' the brain to hear better in these situations.

A Cambridge student developing a new technique to fine-tune hearing aids in young children has won the 2006 Pauline Ashley Prize.