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Congratulations to Dr. Heinz for the 2024 Seed of Success Acorn Award !

Congratulations to Dr. Heinz for receiving the prestigious 2024 Seed of Success Acorn Award! This award honors Purdue researchers who secure a research grant of $1 million or more for a single proposal. Dr. Heinz’s impactful research continues to advance knowledge in the field of auditory science. We also extend congratulations to Dr. Francoise Brosseau-Lapre, Dr. Chenell Loudermill, and Dr. Georgia Malandraki, fellow SLHS faculty, for receiving this distinguished recognition.

Afagh Farhadi Receives Two Travel Awards for ARO MidWinter Meeting

The Heinz Lab congratulates Afagh Farhadi on receiving two travel awards to attend the 48th Annual MidWinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO). Afagh Farhadi was awarded the ARO Travel Award and the Purdue Postdoctoral Supplemental Travel Award. Congratulations, Afagh!

PIIN Travel Award Granted to Afagh Farhadi

We are pleased to share that Afagh Farhadi, a postdoc in the Heinz lab, has received a travel grant from the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience (PIIN). This grant will support her participation in the HWK Workshop on Auditory Efferent System(s) in Germany.

Congratulations, Afagh!

Congratulations to Dr. Vijaya Prakash Krishnan Muthaiah on R21 Grant Award!

We are excited to announce that Dr. Vijaya Prakash Krishnan Muthaiah, a former postdoc of our lab, has been awarded an R21 grant from the NIOSH/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His funded project, titled "Hearing Loss by the Synergistic Effect of Chronic Inhalation Exposure of Manganese Fumes with Occupational Noise Exposure," is a significant achievement in his research career. Congratulations to Dr. Muthaiah on this well-deserved success!

Welcome to the Heinz Lab!

The Auditory Neurophysiology and Modeling Lab coordinates the use of neurophysiology, psychoacoustics, and computational modeling to extend our understanding of the different types of neural and perceptual hearing loss. By using a multidisciplinary approach, we are able to focus our lens to various depths of auditory perception and hearing science— essentially anywhere from the cochlea in the auditory periphery all the way up through the central nervous system. We are currently working on understanding the basic science of neural correlates underlying auditory perception, while also investigating translational approaches to diagnosing different types of cochlear damage to dissect the clinical category of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). 

 

Our research team is diverse; in addition to auditory neurophysiology our lab members have training in engineering, audiology, animal sciences, biology, medicine, and even music. The knowledge derived for our work has been and continues to be useful in evaluating the limitations of current hearing aids, and for suggesting novel strategies for hearing aids and cochlear implants. At Purdue, our lab collaborates extensively with the Systems Neuroscience of Auditory Perception Laboratory, the Department of Speech Language, & Hearing Sciences, the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience. We also collaborate with many labs outside Purdue.