Rutherford to study noise-induced hearing loss

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Mark A. Rutherford, assistant professor of otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on the pore-forming and auxiliary subunit molecular anatomy of AMPA-type glutamate receptors in the cochlea to target small-molecule therapy for noise-induced hearing loss.  

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