Eaton-Peabody Laboratories
The Eaton-Peabody Laboratories (EPL), founded in 1958, comprise a multi-disciplinary group of 22 Investigators within 12 Research Units dedicated to the study of hearing and deafness. EPL Investigators include clinicians and basic scientists, who bring together scientific strengths in neuroanatomy, physiology, psychology, pharmacology, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, molecular biology, immunology, cell biology and genetics.
Research Areas:
The research interests of the group span the auditory system from peripheral to central, from animal model to human patient, from normal to abnormal function, from neurophysiology to behavior, and from the molecular and genetic bases of deafness, to its treatment via hearing aids and auditory implants, as well as efforts to develop stem-cell-based strategies to rebuild the damaged inner ear. Most projects involve collaborations among multiple investigators, and most investigators participate in multiple projects. One way of summarizing the major research areas, and participating investigators, is as follows - more information is available at each investigator's website:
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RESEARCH AREA
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INVESTIGATORS
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Middle Ear: Conductive Hearing Loss
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Merchant Peake Rosowski
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Cochlear Mechanics & Otoacoustic Emissions
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Guinan Shera
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Inner Ear: Hair Cell and Cochlear Nerve
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Eatock Liberman Sewell
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Inner Ear: Sensorineural Hearing Loss
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Adams Kujawa McKenna Stankovic
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Inner Ear: Regeneration
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Edge Chen Parker
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Central Auditory Circuits
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Brown Delgutte Hancock Polley
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Tinnitus and Auditory Imaging
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Levine Melcher
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Auditory Prostheses: Brainstem Implants
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Lee DeVenecia
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Research Training:
Doctoral research can be carried out with EPL faculty under the Program in Speech and Hearing BioScience & Technology (SHBT), a part of the Health Sciences and Technology Division of Harvard/MIT.
Research Seminars:
EPL Seminars feature weekly research presentations on topics relevant to Hearing and Deafness
Research Resources:
EPL technical staff, supported by a P30 Core Grant from the NIDCD, have developed hardware and software for research and/or training, including Imaging Resources and Engineering Resources
Research Units:
More information on some research areas is available at the websites of Research Units, as indicated below.
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RESEARCH AREA
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RESEARCH UNIT
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Middle Ear: Conductive Hearing Loss
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Cochlear Mechanics & Otoacoustic Emissions
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Inner Ear: Hair Cell and Cochlear Nerve
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Hair Cell Biophysics Unit; Neurochemistry Unit
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Inner Ear: Sensorineural Hearing Loss
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Winthrop/Doreau Molecular Neuroscience Unit
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Inner Ear: Regeneration
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Tillotson Cell Biology Unit
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Central Auditory Circuits
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Neural Coding Unit; Peabody Plasticity Unit
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Tinnitus and Auditory Imaging
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Tinnitus Unit; Auditory Imaging Unit
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Auditory Prostheses: Brainstem Implants
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Wilson Brainstem Implant Unit
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