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From natural history to clinical trial: The role of audiology in understanding and treating Niemann-Pick disease type C

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Air date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 1:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views: Total views: 339 (43 Live, 296 On-demand)
Category: Special
Runtime: 00:58:20
Description: NIDCD Beyond the Lab, Understanding Communication Disorders

Designed for administrative and support staff as well as scientists, the Beyond the Lab, Understanding Communication Disorders speaker series gives the NIH community an opportunity to learn about the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorder’s (NIDCD) research and research advances.

Learn about the NIDCD’s Audiology Unit, its contribution to biomedical research and the NIH mission, and its involvement in research evaluating a new therapy for Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC). NPC is a rare cholesterol storage disorder that primarily affects children and is often fatal by early adulthood. NPC damages a variety of organs in the body, including the ear, but primarily affects the brain.

As part of its mission, the NIDCD Audiology Unit provides hearing tests to patients with rare diseases such as NPC being treated at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center. NIDCD intramural scientists were the first to detail the affects of NPC on hearing, and are now members of a team, led by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), working on a clinical trial to test a promising new therapy for the disease.
Author: Carmen Brewer, Ph.D., Chief, Audiology Unit, NIDCD, NIH and Kelly King, Au.D., Ph.D., Research Audiologist, NIDCD, NIH
 
CIT Live ID: 18790
Permanent link: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=18790

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