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Melissa Vollrath
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Latest funding
- $17,500
Functional Time Course of Hair Cell Development in Danio rerio
CIHR · 2010 · Supervisor
- $554,814
The physiological basis of hearing and balance by hair cells of the inner ear
CIHR · 2010 · Nominated PI
- $105,000
Determining the Role of TRPM2 in Oxidative Hair Cell Death in the Inner Ear
CIHR · 2010 · Supervisor
No publications available.
Functional Time Course of Hair Cell Development in Danio rerio
Principal investigators: Stare, Jerneja
Keywords: Deafness; Deafness Genes; Development; Electrophysiology; Hair Cells; Hearing Impairment; Neurophysiology; Single-Cell Patch-Clamp; Zebrafish
The physiological basis of hearing and balance by hair cells of the inner ear
Principal investigators: Vollrath, Melissa A
Keywords: Electrophysiology; Hair Cells; Hearing And Balance; Inner Ear; Molecular Biology; Regeneration
Determining the Role of TRPM2 in Oxidative Hair Cell Death in the Inner Ear
Principal investigators: Stare, Jerneja
Keywords: Cell Death; Deafness; Electrophysiology; Fluorescence Microscopy; Hair Cells; Immunohistochemistry; Neurophysiology; Reactive Oxygen Species (Ros); Trpm2; Vestibular Disorders
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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