The IHU reConnect, which won the State’s call for projects in 2023, was officially launched last week. It is supported by the Hearing Institute, a center of the Pasteur Institute, by the AP-HP, Inserm, Paris-Cité University and the Hearing Foundation.
This university hospital institute’s role – like other structures of this type, in other medical fields – is to provide patients with the benefits of the latest scientific advances in the fields of hearing and speech. To do this, it draws on the expertise of the various stakeholders. Around 300 researchers and hearing professionals will be involved, at cruising speed, in this IHU. They work in particular at the Center for Research and Innovation in Human Audiology (CeRIAH) at the Institut Pasteur, at the Necker-Enfants Malades AP-HP hospital (CREA pediatric), at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital AP- HP (adult CREA), in the ENT emergency room of the Lariboisière AP-HP hospital…
7 major priority research themes have been selected and 4 projects are underway: COMPRESSED, on users of remote conferences and the effects of compressed sounds, Refined (speech enhancement methods based on AI for people with disorders of the autistic sphere), Audiogenage (better characterize age-related hearing loss) and RnDys (can rhythmic auditory training improve the performance of children with specific disorders written language?). The IHU will also support training and prevention actions throughout France.
The management of the IHU is made up of Anne-Lise Giraud, director, Anne-Dominique Lodeho-Devauchelle, deputy director, Claire Paquet, scientific director, and Yann Nguyen, clinical director.
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