With a clinical trial underway to restore vision optogenetically, researchers also see promise in using the technique to treat deafness, pain, and other conditions.

Music sounds very different to cochlear implant users. Researchers are trying to improve the experience.

Acting Chief, Section on Sensory Cell Development and Function, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Age: 38

A teaching obligation in graduate school introduced James Hudspeth to a career focused on how vertebrates sense sounds.