Current Research Projects

Our department has a strong research enterprise, and it takes place at many different levels.  The first set of links includes many  research projects with current or recent federal funding (mostly NIH) which are based in our department.

LABORATORY FOR TRANSLATIONAL AUDITORY RESEARCH

Principal Investigators: Svirsky, Neuman, Fitzgerald, Tan, Sagi
 
COCHLEAR IMPLANT FITTING FOR NOISY LISTENING CONDITIONS USING A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF SPEECH PERCEPTION BY COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS
Project Number: H133F090031
Principal Investigator: Elad Sagi, PhD
Abstract
Grant publications
 
MODELS OF SPEECH PERCEPTION BY COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS
Project Number: R01DC003937-11
Principal Investigator: Mario A. Svirsky, PhD
Abstract
Grant publications
 
ADAPTATION TO FREQUENCY MISMATCH IN COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS
Project Number:  R01DC003937-14
Principal Investigator: Mario A. Svirsky, PhD
Abstract
Grant publications
 
CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF COCHLEAR IMPLANT PATIENTS WITH CONTRALATERAL HEARING AIDS
Project Number:  R01DC011329-02
Principal Investigators:  Mario A. Svirsky, PhD and Arlene Neuman, PhD
Abstract
Grant publications
 
OPTIMIZING FITTING OF BILATERAL COCHLEAR IMPLANTS
Project Number:  R00DC009459-05
Principal Investigator: Matthew Fitzgerald, PhD
Abstract
Grant publications
 
BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES IN ACOUSTIC-ELECTRICAL PITCH MATCHING
Project Number:  K25DC010834-03
Principal Investigator:  Chin-Tuan Tan, PhD
Abstract
 
NONLINEARLY DISTORTED MUSIC AND SPEECH AS PERCEIVED BY HEARING-IMPAIRED PEOPLE
Principal Investigator:  Chin-Tuan Tan, PhD
Abstract
NYU-Poly announcement
 

NYU VOICE CENTER

Principal Investigators: Amin, Branski
 
INFLAMMATION AND FIBROSIS OF THE VOCAL FOLDS
Project Number: R03DC010267
Principal Investigator: Ryan Branski, PhD
Grant publications
 
Ongoing research at the Voice Center
 

ROEHM LAB

 
MECHANISM OF NEUROTROPHIN LATENCY RESPONSE IN A HSV1 VESTIBULAR NEURITIS MODEL
Project Number: K08DC009288
Principal Investigator: Pamela Roehm, MD, PhD
Abstract
Grant publications
 

LONG LAB

 
CELLULAR AND SYNAPTIC RULES ENABLING VOCAL COMMUNICATION
Project Number:  R00DC009280-05
Principal Investigator: Michael Long, PhD
Abstract
Grant publications
 
SYNAPTIC AND CIRCUIT MECHANISMS OF LEARNED VOCAL PRODUCTION
Project Number:  R01NS075044-02
Principal Investigator: Michael Long, PhD
Abstract
Grant publications
 
Home page of the Long laboratory (The Long lab studies how neuronal ensembles enable skilled behaviors)
 

FROEMKE LAB

 
SYNAPTIC BASIS OF PERCEPTUAL LEARNING IN PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX
Project Number:  R00DC009635-05
Principal Investigator: Robert Froemke, PhD
Abstract
Grant publications
 
Home page of the Froemke laboratory (Synaptic Plasticity, Cortical Dynamics, and Social Behavior)
http://ent.webdev.nyumc.org/sites/default/files/ent2/Projects in the Froemke lab.pdf">Projects in the Froemke lab
 

CLINICAL RESEARCH

 

NYU COCHLEAR IMPLANT CENTER

Co-Directors: Susan Waltzman, PhD, and J. Thomas Roland, MD
 
Since its inception in 1984 the NYU Cochlear Implant Center has been one of the largest and most highly respected clinical and research cochlear implant centers in the world.
Areas of research
 
OTHER DEPARTMENTS
Our residents have conducted successful research projects in laboratories outside our department.
 

SCHMIDT LABORATORY

 
THE ROLE OF PROTEASES AND PEPTIDES IN CANCER PAIN            
Project Number:  R01DE019796-03
Principal Investigator:  Brian Schmidt, MD, PhD, DDS
Publications
 
Research interests
PI's publications
 
 

PATEL LABORATORY

(Thyroid cancer)
Biosketch and research interests