Contact Information
Christopher A. Shera, PhD
Auditory Research Center
1640 Marengo St, Suite 326
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Email: christopher.shera[at]usc.edu
Funding
HCN is funded by a training grant (T32 DC009975) from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health.
Additional funding is provided by the USC Keck School of Medicine, the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Scientific Advisory Board
Members of the HCN Scientific Advisory Board and their affiliations:
- Andrew Groves (Baylor College of Medicine)
- Ruth Litovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- John Middlebrooks (University of California, Irvine)
- Dan Sanes (New York University)
- Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Carnegie Mellon University)
Executive Committee
Members of the HCN Executive Committee and their USC affiliations:
- Carolina Abdala (KSOM)
- Brian Applegate (KSOM, Viterbi)
- Laurie Eisenberg (KSOM)
- Ksenia Gnedeva (KSOM)
- Louis Goldstein (Dornsife)
- Ray Goldsworthy (KSOM, Viterbi)
- Assal Habibi (Dornsife)
- Radha Kalluri (KSOM, Viterbi)
- Shrikanth Narayanan (Viterbi, Dornsife, KSOM)
- John Oghalai (KSOM, Viterbi)
- Christopher Shera (KSOM, Dornsife)
Site Credits
The HCN logo/website banner was designed by Leah Kim.
The artwork featured on the About page is Emma Detrick’s Coils of Time and Sound (2023), about which she wrote:
Coils of Time and Sound is a triptych that illustrates a timeline of healthy hearing from childhood through adolescence. In my art piece I hope to communicate the often overlooked fragility of hearing cells, highlight hearing as it contributes to the joyful moments of the human experience, and position the cochlea as a representation of the many mysteries of life that have yet to be uncovered.