Stanford Acquires Advanced Instrument to Accelerate the Quest for Hearing Loss Cure

February 26th was an especially good day for the Stanford team in their efforts to move closer to finding a cure for hearing loss. In addition to the exciting Press Release on Dr. Cheng’s research findings on hair cell regeneration and hearing loss, we were pleased to announce that Dr. Heller and the Stanford OHNS team were the proud owners of a new stem cell sorter. As you may recall, there are currently only about a dozen of these instruments (costing over a third of a million dollars) available in the world. The Stanford team will be the first research group in the world to apply this cutting edge technology to overcome hearing loss.