I’m currently working at the Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories and The University of Iowa. For the past 5 years, I've been studying genetic deafness, with particular interest in how mitochondria defect leads to hearing loss. This led me to investigate the impact of OPA1 mutation and TRa defect during the cochlea development and aging and the signaling pathways involved. My current project is ' genetic deafness and gene therapy'.