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2026

July 15, 2026
The Future is Listening: Discovery, Innovation, and Hope in Hearing Health
Ronna Hertzano, M.D., Ph.D., Sackler School of Medicine

2025

July 9, 2025
NIDCD Beyond the Lab Speaker Series: Can You Smell That? Smell as a Biomarker of Brain Health and Quality-of-Life
Josh Levy, M.D., , Clinical Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

2024

June 24, 2024
Zebrafish Can Help Us “See” How Hearing Works
Katie Kindt, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

2023

June 29, 2023
Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids: How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
Kelly King, Au.D., Ph.D., Audiologist and Program Officer, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

2022

June 28, 2022
Progress Toward Hair Cell Regeneration and the Restoration of Hearing
Matthew W. Kelley, Ph.D., Chief, Section on Developmental Neuroscience, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

2021

June 17, 2021
NIDCD Mouse Auditory Testing Core Facility's Role in Identifying Hearing Loss
Tracy Fitzgerald, Ph.D., CCC-A, Staff Scientist in the NIDCD Mouse Auditory Testing Core Facility, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

2020

June 16, 2020
The Promise of Gene Therapy for Hearing and Balance Disorders
Wade Chien, M.D., Otolaryngology Surgeon-Scientist and Principal Investigator, Inner Ear Gene Therapy Program, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

2019

May 28, 2019
Human Hereditary Deafness is Complex Yet Easy to Grasp
Thomas B. Friedman, Ph.D., Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Section on Human Genetics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

2018

May 8, 2018
Harnessing the Immune System to Fight HPV-Related Tumors in the Airway
Clint Allen, M.D., Otolaryngology Surgeon-Scientist and Principal Investigator, Translational Tumor Immunology Program, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

2017

May 23, 2017
The Making of the Inner Ear
Doris Wu, Ph.D., Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the Section on Sensory Cell Regeneration and Development, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders