Brice Bathellier, winner of the 2023 Scientific Emergence Prize from the Fondation Pour l'Audition

On November 9, the evening event "Together, listening to life" organized by the Fondation Pour l'Audition featured an award ceremony for scientists whose research has led or will lead to major progress in tackling hearing loss, as well as initiatives to help integrate people with hearing loss in society.

The event, opened by Philippe Meyers, President of the Fondation Pour l'Audition, and with actor Julie Gayet as special guest and patron of the 2023 edition, was an opportunity to showcase a wide range of high-impact, future-oriented projects.

These include the project led by Brice Bathellier, Head of the Dynamics of the Auditory System and Multisensory Perception Unit at the Hearing Institute. The team uses an interdisciplinary approach combining biology, innovative techniques and computer modeling in an attempt to progressively elucidate the way in which sound waves are processed by the auditory cortex, the brain region that receives and analyzes auditory information. The aim of their research is to develop an implant to restore hearing via brain stimulation, in collaboration with European partners. Brice Bathellier was awarded the Scientific Emergence Prize for Basic Research for this project.

Watch the video with Brice Bathellier for the 2023 Scientific Emergence Prize for Basic Research

To find out more about the scientific prizes, see the press release from the Fondation Pour l'Audition (in French)