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New NIDCD Director

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New NIDCD Director
On September 3, 2019, Debra Tucci (right) joined the NIH family as director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). After her swearing-in ceremony, we paused for a photo. Credit: NIH

LabTV: Curious About Genetics of Deafness

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Joseph FosterWhat do Miami, music, and genetic research have in common? They are all central to the life of Joseph Foster, the young researcher who’s in the spotlight for our next installment of LabTV.

Foster, a research associate in Mustafa Tekin’s lab at the University of Miami’s Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, is involved in the hunt for the remaining genes responsible for congenital forms of deafness.This area of research is a good fit for Foster. Not only does he have a keen interest in genetic diseases (a close family member was born with cystic fibrosis), he’s a musician with a deep appreciation of the gift of hearing—loving to play the saxophone in his free time.


A White Halloween Costume That’s Not a Ghost

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Photo of a tall man in glasses wearing a tie looking down at a young boy wearing play glasses, a tie, a white coat, and a stethoscope.

Caption: Dr. Jay Rubinstein and his mini-me, Landon Browne
Credit: Courtesy of Mary Guiden, Seattle Children’s Hospital

What costume to wear for Halloween? For many kids, it’s a difficult choice, but not so for 7-year-old Landon Browne. This year, he’s not going as a zombie or an action hero—he’s going as an NIH-funded researcher!

Landon, who was born almost completely deaf, has decided to dress up as his real-life superhero: Jay Rubinstein, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-scientist at Seattle Children’s Hospital who performed the surgeries that have enabled the boy to hear.