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Paul Garrity
Paul A. Garrity is a biology professor at Brandeis University who studies the molecular sensors and neural circuits insects use to detect temperature, humidity, and chemicals.
Peter A. McNaughton
Peter A. McNaughton is a New Zealand-born sensory neuroscientist and Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London, known for identifying the ion channels behind warmth sensation and chronic pain.
Peter Dallos
Peter Dallos (Dallos Péter, born 1934) is a Hungarian-born American auditory physiologist, John Evans Professor of Neuroscience Emeritus at Northwestern, whose work identified prestin, the motor protein powering cochlear amplification.
Peter G. Gillespie
Peter G. Gillespie, who publishes as Peter G. Barr-Gillespie, is an American sensory neuroscientist at OHSU's Vollum Institute known for work on inner-ear hair-cell mechanotransduction.
Poppy Crum
Poppy Crum is a neuroscientist who served as Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories from 2010 to 2021 and is now an adjunct professor at Stanford University.
Robert Fettiplace
Robert Fettiplace, born in 1946, is a British-born sensory neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies inner-ear hair cells and shared the 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Robert Galambos
Robert Galambos was an American neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for proving bat echolocation in 1939, the 1961 glia-neural theory of brain function, and the auditory brainstem response test.
Robert W. Baloh
Robert W. Baloh, also published as R. W. Baloh, is an American neurologist and neuro-otologist at UCLA whose vestibular tests and textbooks became the field standard.
Stanislav S. Zakharenko
Stanislav S. Zakharenko is a neuroscientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who directs the Division of Neural Circuits and Behavior and studies the auditory thalamus.
Stefan Heller
Stefan Heller is a sensory neuroscientist and hearing researcher who holds a professorship in otolaryngology at Stanford, working on hair cell regeneration and stem-cell treatments for hearing loss.
Sven-Eric Jordt
Sven-Eric Jordt is an American-based sensory neuroscientist and toxicologist, Professor of Anesthesiology at Duke University, known for identifying TRPA1 as the receptor for airway irritants like tear gas.
Teresa A. Nicolson
Teresa A. Nicolson is an American neuroscientist who uses zebrafish to study the genetics of hearing and balance, and is a professor at Stanford University.
Tobias Moser
Tobias Moser, born 1968 in Görlitz, is a German physician and auditory neuroscientist, founding director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience in Göttingen, known for the optical cochlear implant.
Ulrich Müller
Ulrich Müller is a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor known for identifying the molecular machinery that cochlear hair cells use to convert sound into electrical signals.
Walter A. Rosenblith
Walter A. Rosenblith was an Austrian-born American biophysicist at MIT known for pioneering computer and mathematical analysis of the brain, with a focus on auditory biophysics.
X.Z. Shawn Xu
X.Z. Shawn Xu (许献忠) is a neuroscientist who established all six primary sensory modalities in the nematode C. elegans, identified sensory receptors including LITE-1, and studies how sensation regulates aging.
Xiaoqin Wang
Xiaoqin Wang is an American auditory neuroscientist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for developing the common marmoset as a primate model for studying auditory cortex and speech perception.
Yngve Zotterman
Yngve Zotterman was a Swedish neurophysiologist who co-authored the 1926 papers first recording impulses in a single sensory nerve fiber, then identified fibers for touch, pain, and temperature.
Zhiqiang Yan (闫致强)
Zhiqiang Yan (闫致强) is a Chinese sensory neuroscientist who identified the ion channels for touch, hearing, pain, and thirst, best known for establishing NOMPC as the fruit fly's gentle-touch channel.