Hearing Restoration Project Webinar Event
Presenter: Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D. | October 14, 2026
Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D., a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, is the scientific director of Hearing Health Foundation’s Hearing Restoration Project, a research consortium comprising 14 labs in the U.S. and Canada. In this webinar, she explains the challenges of regrowing human sensory hair cells in the inner ear, outlines why the HRP’s unique collaborative approach helps speed discoveries, provides an update on the HRP’s progress including an upcoming group paper, and details next steps for the team.
This webinar was moderated by Brenda Ryals, Ph.D., member of HHF’s Board of Directors, along with Chris Geissler, Ph.D., HHF’s director of program and research support.
The recording is captioned above. Please click here for a transcript. We will feature this webinar as an article in our upcoming Winter 2027 issue of Hearing Health magazine that comes out in January.
HHF’s research webinars highlight the significant findings by Emerging Research Grants scientists. Our ERG program provides seed funding to early stage investigators, including in underfunded areas of otology, and these hourlong Zoom presentations underscore the critical impact this funding has had on both research advances as well as the scientists themselves.
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Recorded Research Webinars
Webinar recordings with captions are below and on YouTube.
HHF’s research webinars had been moderated by Anil K. Lalwani, M.D., a member of HHF's Board of Directors and the head of HHF's Council of Scientific Trustees, which oversees the ERG program. A past professor and the vice chair for research in the department of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery, the associate dean for student research at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a co-director at the Columbia Cochlear Implant Program, Lalwani in 2026 became the inaugural dean inaugural dean of the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, India.