<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Is anyone on this list in contact with individuals at the Stanford University Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The reason I ask is that Stanford has a lot of patents in the area of Optogenetics.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tobias Moser (The Moser Group) at University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) is doing a lot of great work that is progressing towards an Optogenetic Cochlear Implant.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I’m not mistaken, Alexander Dieter, the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience/umg is creating the C++ audio interface to the Optogenetic Cochlear Implant internals.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.umg.eu/news-detail/news-detail/detail/news/hearing-the-light-how-artificial-hearing-could-become-more-natural/" class="">https://www.umg.eu/news-detail/news-detail/detail/news/hearing-the-light-how-artificial-hearing-could-become-more-natural/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">I myself have profound hearing loss and a great interest to become more involved in clinical trials.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ultimately it would be of great benefit to interface things like STK and JUCE, and other efforts in modern C++ in direct interface to such an implant.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kindly let me know. I’m at an age and stage in my career where I have intense interest in participating in clinical trials.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Robert D. Thompson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>