Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

From the Official Announcement (Nov 21 2024; Google translated from French)

2024 Scientific Grand Prize of the Fondation Pour l'Audition:
The Scientific Prize honors researchers and doctors each year for their pioneering work in the field. This year and for its 9th edition, Professor Alain Chédotal, the President of the Scientific Council, introduces the award ceremony.

This prize aims to recognize the work of a scientist or doctor who has made a major discovery in the field of hearing, opening up new perspectives for all. As these advances transcend borders, the Fondation Pour l'Audition wishes through this prize to contribute and support French or foreign personalities who accelerate research in hearing. Professor Ulrich Müller, Bloomberg Chair of Neuroscience and Biology and Chair of the Department of Developmental Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, has dedicated much of his
career to elucidating the mechanisms by which sensory cells in the inner ear transform sound and speech into electrical signals, called mechanotransduction.

He is receiving the Hearing Foundation’s Grand Scientific Prize for discovering the function of most of the genes involved in mechanotransduction in mammals using novel genetic, molecular, electrophysiological and biophysical approaches. His work on these essential components of hearing has paved the way for the development of therapies for genetic deafness.

The amount of the Grand Prix scientifique is set at 65,000 euros with a personal endowment of 40,000 € and an optional endowment of 25,000 € for sabbatical stays in research laboratories in France intended to develop synergies and collaborations with scientists in the field.

The Honorary President of the Fondation Pour l’AudiAon, Mrs. Françoise Bedencourt Meyers, presents the Grand Prix ScienAfique to Professor Ulrich Müller, based in the United States.

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