Flexner Discovery Lecture- Hearing Restoration via Cochlear Implants: Achievements and Future Challenges for Engineering and Research, Thursday October 8, 4pm
The co-creator of the world’s first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant — a device that provides sound signals to the brain in deaf individuals — will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture.
Ingeborg Hochmair, Ph.D., CEO and CTO of cochlear implant manufacturer MED-EL Corporation, will speak on Thursday, Oct. 8.
Her lecture, “Hearing Restoration via Cochlear Implants: Achievements and Future Challenges for Engineering and Research,” begins at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall. It is sponsored by the ý Bill Wilkerson Center and the Department of Otolaryngology.
Hochmair and her husband Erwin Hochmair, D.Tech., worked together at Vienna University of Technology to design and develop a device that could stimulate the auditory nerve at several locations within the cochlea. Their device, a microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant, was first implanted in 1977.
Ingeborg Hochmair received the 2013 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award together with Graeme Clark and Blake Wilson for developing the modern cochlear implant.
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