Auditory System

Thomas B. Friedman

Research TopicsThe goal of our laboratory is to identify and characterize the molecular machines and pathways necessary for the development and maintenance of t…

Tiansen Li

Research TopicsResearch in this section focuses on inherited forms of retinal degeneration, clinically known as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) or Leber congenital am…

Ronna Hertzano

Research TopicsOur hearing depends on highly specialized mechanosensitive sensory cells named hair cells (HCs). The progressive loss of HCs is either the cause …

Lisa L. Cunningham

Research TopicsResearch in the Section on Sensory Cell Biology is focused on the mechanosensory hair cells that are the receptor cells of hearing and balance. H…

Angela Ballesteros

Research TopicsThe Section on Sensory Physiology and Biophysics focuses on the relationship between the mechanoelectrical transduction (MET) channel complex and…

Alexander Cartagena-Rivera, Ph.D.

Dr. Alexander X. Cartagena-Rivera received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 2010. Then he was a g…

Tiansen Li, Ph.D.

Tiansen Li, Ph.D. is a senior investigator at the Neurobiology, Neurodegeneration & Repair Laboratory, National Eye Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Pu…