Deafness Research UK awards research grant to Dr Michael Evans

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Posted on 19 November 2012

Dr Michael Evans, senior lecturer in neuroscience at Keele, has been awarded £8,250 from Deafness Research UK.  The grant will run over 18 months and will fund a project called 'Properties of the hair cell acetylcholine receptor during development'.

The co-applicant is Dr Helen Kennedy at the University of Bristol and the funding will be divided between the two universities.

The acetylcholine receptor is a component of an inhibitory pathway that influences how the auditory receptors (hair cells) detect sound and also, possibly, how they form appropriate and lasting neural connections during development.  This pathway could provide a future therapeutic method to modulate how we hear, but more research is presently needed to understand the normal function of the pathway.

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