NIH Grant Enables Cochlear Implant Breakthrough

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Press release, University of Texas at Dallas - January 28, 2011

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NIH Grant Enables Cochlear Implant Breakthrough

Project Uses Smartphone Interface to Adjust Settings for Noisy Environments

Many cochlear implant users may soon be able to easily modify the settings

on their hearing devices using a smartphone interface, selecting one setting

for a bustling restaurant, another for a hushed library.

Ten health-care and research facilities across the U.S. are slated to

participate in clinical trials of the technology, pending Food and Drug

Administration approval, says Dr. Philip Loizou, director of the Cochlear

Implant Lab <http://www.utdallas.edu/%7Eloizou/cimplants/> at UT Dallas and

principal investigator for the $2.5 million project, which is funded by the

National Institutes of Health.

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