As Saaïd Safieddine, CNRS Director of Research at the Institut Pasteur and co-senior author of the study with Prof. Christine Petit (head of the Genetics & physiology hearing unit at the Institut Pasteur), explains, «we have just shown that it is possible to partially correct a specific form of hereditary hearing loss accompanied by balance problems using local gene therapy performed
after the embryogenesis of the ear, which is primarily affected by the mutation responsible for the disorder.
Antonio Giraldez (Yale University)-- A developmental biologist, Dr. Giraldez works on deciphering the regulatory code that shapes
embryogenesis, the earliest events that occur
after fertilization.