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The main goal of the research that I am currently involved in is to protect and/or restore hearing. I am employing gene therapy and nano-technology-inspired drug delivery techniques to introduce therapeutics into the cochlea for hair cell regeneration or nerve survival and repair. These techniques have the potential to improve the outcomes achieved with cochlear implantation or even restore hearing by repopulating the damaged sensory region of the cochlea with new cells. I am interested in drug delivery techniques, pharmacokinetics and functional assessment in order to help drug discoveries for hearing protection and restoration move towards clinical translation.
Another major research focus is to develop innovative strategies to improve precision of cochlear implants. The fundamental limitation of cochlear implants is the spread of electrical current which means that nerves in one part of the cochlea can be activated by more than one electrode. The solution to this problem could to be to use light to activate the hearing nerve as light can be focused for more precise activation. The main goal is to determine whether light stimulation alone or in combination with electrical stimulation can significantly improve the precision of nerve activation in the cochlea and whether this will result in a meaningful difference to the way people hear sound.
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Nanomaterialsno. 3 (2024)
Elise A Ajay, Alex C Thompson, Ajmal A Azees, Andrew K Wise,David B Grayden,James B Fallon,Rachael T Richardson
Scientific Reportsno. 1 (2024): 1-18
Ajmal A. Azees,Alex C. Thompson, Ross Thomas, Jenny Zhou,Patrick Ruther,Andrew K. Wise,Elise A. Ajay,David J. Garrett,Anita Quigley,James B. Fallon,Rachael T. Richardson
Hearing Research (2023): 108911
Frontiers in neuroscience (2023): 1190662
Biomedical signal processing and control (2023): 105031-105031
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