The Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Hospitals and Clinics is seeking a Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Alex Claussen. Alexander Claussen, MD is an Otolaryngologist specializing in Otology and Neurotology. His clinical practice and research focus on hearing, auditory neuroscience, neural prosthetics and inner-ear immunology. Specifically, his laboratory focuses on the inner-ear inflammatory response to cochlear implantation, developing new technology and treatments to improve cochlear implant efficacy, understanding drug-induced hearing loss and basic inner-ear immunology. The overarching goal of these research efforts is to better understand differe