Posts by Sunil Puria, PhD
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Cochlear Motion Across the Reticular Lamina Implies It Is Not a Stiff Plate
Sunil Puria, PhD, and Nam Hyun Cho, PhD, determined in animal model that the reticular lamina within the organ of Corti does not move as a stiff plate near the outer hair cells in the ear but rather might bend or stretch, a finding that has implications for improving understanding of cochlear amplification.
Biography
Sunil Puria, PhD, is an Amelia Peabody scientist in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass Eye and Ear and an associate professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Mass Eye and Ear/Mass General Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear/Massachusetts General Hospital combines the expertise of highly specialized ear, nose, and throat physicians, audiologists, speech-language pathologists and auxiliary health care professionals to provide care for patients with problems affecting the ear, nose, throat, head and neck areas. The department, which is led by Chief and Chair Mark A. Varvares, MD, FACS, is one of the largest otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (OHNS) departments in the country, with more than 70 physicians staffed at 15 locations in the greater Boston area.
