HEARLIGHT

The European Union's Horizon 2020 Future Emerging Technologies FET OPEN programme has awarded 3M to HearLight, a collaborative project coordinated by the Hearing Institute at Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)... HearLight aims to boost precision in auditory rehabilitation strategies for a broad range of deafness indications using a radically new approach targeted to the brain rather than to the ear. It will combine Bioelectronics and Optogenetics technologies to apply precise stimulation patterns in the auditory cortex, a crucial brain area for auditory perception. To achieve this on the longer-term, one of HearLight's aims is to develop thin, flexible and biocompatible electrode and LED arrays that one could slide within the circumvolutions of the human auditory cortex.

Primary location: Glasgow United Kingdom