Dr.
David Paul Corey
Harvard Medical School
Neurobiologist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Neurosciences
Elected
2011
A leader in understanding how receptor cells in the inner ear convert sound into neural signals, he developed the basic biophysical description of the force-gated ion channels that mediate hearing, balance and other mechanical senses such as touch. Recent work has involved the molecular mechanics of individual proteins in the sensory apparatus of the inner ear, which has revealed how this apparatus can be impaired by gene mutations that cause inherited deafness.
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