Gene therapy

About 40,000 Australians are estimated to have Ménière’s disease. Research officer Yolanda Liu is pictured working on the gene mutation discovery at the Kolling Institute. Image: Kolling Institute.

Meniere's disease

Kolling Institute gene mutation find means inherited Ménière’s may be more common

January 30, 2025

The inherited or genetic form of Ménière’s disease may be more common than first realised, according to Kolling Institute researchers...

The three toddlers, who have congenital deafness linked to mutations in the OTOF (otoferlin) gene, received intra-cochlear administration of the gene therapy. Image: RFBSIP/stock.adobe.com.

Gene therapy

Sensorion gives gene therapy to third deaf toddler; provides details of first Aus patient

by Helen Carter

December 27, 2024

Sensorion has provided gene therapy to two more toddlers with congenital deafness after the first child, an Australian infant, received...

Sydney ENT surgeon Clinical Professor Catherine Birman OAM pictured in August 2024 at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital's 40th anniversary celebrations of its first cochlear implant. Prof Birman performed the pioneering gene therapy transfer on the first patient, an Australian infant born with profound to severe hearing loss. Image: Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Gene image: vegefox/stock.adobe.com.

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EXCLUSIVE: First Australian child to have gene therapy for deafness in pioneering trial

by Helen Carter

November 19, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: A young child has become the first in Australia to receive pioneering gene therapy for deafness in a groundbreaking...

The talented team working in the new Meniere-Neuroscience Laboratory at the Kolling Institute, Sydney. Image: Kolling Institute.

Meniere's disease

The frontier of Ménière’s disease

by Helen Carter

September 9, 2024

World leading Ménière's disease researcher PROFESSOR JOSE ANTONIO LOPEZ-ESCAMEZ moved from Spain to the University of Sydney to establish the...

Gene therapy

Addressing the root cause of genetic deafness

by Helen Carter

August 4, 2024

Gene therapy is the new frontier in medicine, and the hearing sector is at the forefront. In this feature, we...

Principal investigator of the Australian study site, Associate Professor Valerie Sung from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), Melbourne, said the natural history study is in children and adults with the same form of auditory neuropathy deafness in both ears. Image: MCRI.

Gene therapy

MCRI study may pave way for local gene therapy for auditory neuropathy

by Helen Carter

July 23, 2024

A Melbourne study is recruiting Australians with auditory neuropathy to undergo genetic testing which could lead to gene therapy in...

Using a CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing approach and adeno-associated virus, scientists delivered gene editing machinery to the inner ear hair cells of mice with an MIR96 mutation and autosomal dominant deafness-50. Image: Dabarti/stock.adobe.com.

Gene therapy

Gene editing enables mice with a form of inherited deafness to hear

by Helen Carter

July 13, 2024

Researchers have used gene editing to restore hearing in adult mice with a type of inherited progressive hearing loss that...

Gene therapy

Australian first biobank at Ear Science Institute Australia to store tissue for genetic deafness therapies

by Helen Carter

July 13, 2024

A biobank being established in Perth will be the first of its kind in Australia to store tissue related to...

Gene therapy

Ear Science Institute researcher receives WA’s Near-miss Award for gene therapy

by Helen Carter

June 8, 2024

Perth scientist Dr Elaine Wong has received a $100,000 grant from the WA Near-miss Award (WANMA) Ideas Grants program to...

Gene therapy

Gene therapy restores hearing in baby and children with genetic deafness

by Helen Carter

May 13, 2024

Pioneering gene therapy has restored hearing in a British baby born with profound genetic deafness, along with other children in...

Regeneron gene therapy improves hearing in 10 deaf children in CHORD trial, ARO conference hears

Gene therapy

Kolling Institute gene mutation find means inherited Ménière’s may be more common

Sensorion gives gene therapy to third deaf toddler; provides details of first Aus patient

EXCLUSIVE: First Australian child to have gene therapy for deafness in pioneering trial

The frontier of Ménière’s disease

Addressing the root cause of genetic deafness

MCRI study may pave way for local gene therapy for auditory neuropathy

Gene editing enables mice with a form of inherited deafness to hear

Australian first biobank at Ear Science Institute Australia to store tissue for genetic deafness therapies

Ear Science Institute researcher receives WA’s Near-miss Award for gene therapy

Gene therapy restores hearing in baby and children with genetic deafness

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