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Posts by M. Charles Liberman, PhD

  • The renowned Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass Eye and Ear recently underwent a transformative two-year renovation, welcoming a future filled with exciting opportunities while preserving the legacy of its innovative past.

Biography

M. Charles Liberman, PhD, has been on the faculty at Harvard since 1979 and has published more than 180 papers on a variety of topics in auditory neuroscience. Dr. Liberman's research interests include:

  1. The coding of acoustic stimuli as neural responses in the auditory periphery
  2. Efferent feedback control of the auditory periphery
  3. The mechanisms underlying noise-induced and age-related hearing loss
  4. The signaling pathways mediating nerve survival in the inner ear
  5. The application of cell- and drug-based therapies to the repair of a damaged inner ear

His work uses a variety of approaches from systems neuroscience to cell and molecular biology.