Recent Advances in Therapy in Hearing and Vision Course Content

Date

Topic

Lecturer

Week 1

Lecture 0: Course Intro

Lecture 1: Drug discovery methods

Dr. Yuan Yuan Chen

Week 2

Lecture 2: Stages of translational medicine

Dr. Peter Santa Maria

Week 3

Lecture 3: Eye diseases

Dr. Ekterina Lobanova

Week 4

Lecture 4: Hearing diseases

Dr. Greg Basura

Week 5

Lecture 5: Evaluating unmet medical needs

Dr. Peter Santa maria

Week 6

Lecture 6: Preclinical efficacy/animal models

TBD

Week 7

Lecture 7: Preclinical safety/ PK/ADME

TBD

Week 8

Lecture 8: Drug delivery/formulation

Dr. Morgan DiLeo

Week 9

Lecture 9: IP and regulatory in science

TBD

Week 10

 Lecture 10: Clinical Trial development

Dr. Josephe Martel

Week 11

Lecture 11: Gene therapy 

Dr. Leah Byrne

Week 12

Lecture 12: Optic nerve regeneration

Dr. Taka Kuwajima

Week 13

Lecture 13: Cell based therapy

Dr. Gary Yam

Week 14

Lecture 14: Successful examples of new therapies

Dr. John Ash

TBD

Workshop 1: Auditory physiology testing

Dr. Anping Xia

TBD

Workshop 2: Noise models

Dr. Anping Xia

TBD

Workshop 3: ERG

Dr. Yuanyuan Chen

TBD

Workshop 4: OCT and fundus imaging

Dr. Kira Lathrop

TBD

Workshop 5: Dissection of lamb eyes

Dr. Kate Davoli

TBD

Workshop 6: Biodesign

TBD

TBD

Final exam