Principal Investigator

Area of Research Interest

Joe C. Adams, Ph.D.
joe_adams@meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Cochlear homeostasis
- Neuroanatomy

M. Christian Brown, Ph.D.
chris_brown@meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Cochlear anatomy
- Efferent feedback

Bertrand Delgutte, Ph.D.
bertrand_delgutte@meei.harvard.edu
Senior Research Scientist
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

- Neural coding

Donald K. Eddington, Ph.D.
don_eddington@meei.harvard.edu
Principal Research Scientist
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

- Cochlear Implants

Ruth Anne Eatock, Ph.D.
eatock@meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology and Dept. of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

- Biophysics of hair cells and primary afferent neurons

Albert Edge, Ph.D.
albert_edge@meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Auditory neuron replacement
- Stem cells for inner ear regeneration

Barbara Fullerton, Ph.D.
bcf@epl.meei.harvard.edu
Instructor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Cytoarchitecture of human auditory cortex
- Neuroanatomy of the auditory pathway

John J. Guinan, Ph.D.
john_guinan@meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Efferent feedback
- Otoacoustic emissions

Ken Hancock, Ph.D.
ken_hancock@meei.harvard.edu
Instructor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

Nelson Kiang, Ph.D.
bnk@epl.meei.harvard.edu
Director Emeritus
Eaton Peabody Laboratory
Department of Otolaryngology
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Sharon G. Kujawa, Ph.D.
sharon_kujawa@meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School
Director, MEEI Department of Audiology

- Susceptibility to hearing loss
- Age related hearing loss
- Efferent feedback
- Noise damage and protection

Daniel J. Lee, M.D.
daniel_lee@meei.harvard.edu
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Auditory reflex pathways
- Pediatric and adult cochlear 

																											  implantation
- Acoustic neuromas

Robert A. Levine, M.D.
robert_levine@meei.harvard.edu
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Tinnitus
- Somatosensory-Auditory
  Interactions

M. Charles Liberman, Ph.D.
charles_liberman@meei.harvard.edu
EPL Laboratory Director
Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Age related hearing loss
- Efferent feedback
- Noise damage and protection
- Sensorineural hearing loss

Stéphane Maison, Ph.D.
stephane_maison@meei.harvard.edu
Instructor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School 

- Olivocochlear efferents
- Noise damage and protection

- Central auditory processing in humans using functional MRI
- Cellular generators of evoked responses

Saumil N. Merchant, M.D.
saumil_merchant@meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Otology
- Middle ear

William T. Peake, Ph.D.
bill_peake@meei.harvard.edu
Professor Emeritus
Electrical Eng. and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

- Signal processing mechanisms in vertebrate middle-ears
- Physiological acoustics

Mike Ravicz, M.S.
mike_ravicz@meei.harvard.edu
Research Associate
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

- Physiological acoustics

John Rosowski, Ph.D.
john_rosowski@meei.harvard.edu
Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Structure and function of the external and middle ear
- Physiological acoustics

William F. Sewell, Ph.D.
wfs@epl.meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Neurotransmitters and neurotransmission in the inner ear
- Cell signaling in the inner ear
- Auditory pharmacology

Christopher A. Shera, Ph.D.
christopher_shera@meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School

- Otoacoustic emission generation mechanisms
- Cochlear amplification and nonlinearity