∗Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
†Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Alec N. Salt, Ph.D., Department of Otolaryngology, Box 8115, 4560 Clayton Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110; E-mail: [email protected]
Sources of Support: Supported by the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R01 DC001368 (A.N.S.) and by Federal Ministry of Science and Research Germany (BMBF) grant number 01KG1427 (S.K.P.).
Disclosure of Funding: NIH
Financial Disclosure: A.N.S. is a paid consultant to Cochlear Corp., Sydney, Australia, Decibel Therapeutics Inc. Boston, USA, and Otonomy, Inc., San Diego, USA. S.K.P. is a paid consultant to AudioCure Pharma GmbH, Berlin, Germany and Boehringer Ingelheim, Ingelheim, Germany.