Tackling Blindness, Deafness through Neuroengineering From: BioScience Technology - 10/22/2014 The Bertarelli Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, a collaborative program between Harvard Medical School and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, has announced a new set of grants worth $3.6 million for five research projects. Three of the five projects will pursue new methods to diagnose and treat hearing loss. A fourth project focuses on the dynamics of brain networks in children with autism, and the fifth concentrates on cell transplantation strategies that could reverse certain forms of blindness. The five new research programs are: 1. Developing new methods for diagnostics of hearing loss 2. New generation of auditory brain stem implants 3. Gene therapy to treat deafness 4. Brain networks in children with autism 5. Tissue engineering the macula Read the entire article at: http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2014/10/tackling-blindness-deafness-through-neuroengineering http://hms.harvard.edu/news/tackling-blindness-deafness-through-neuroengineering http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2014/10/tackling-blindness-deafness-through-neuroengineering http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/10/reversing-blindness-and-eliminating-deafness Link: The Bertarelli Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bertarelli/