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Initiative is a privately funded organisation dedicated to the
development of effective treatments for all types of tinnitus so that
relief can be obtained by everyone
who suffers from it.
Recent Findings
from the Workbench of TRI - click here
To update your knowledge of tinnitus, the annual evidence update is now available with the aim of presenting expert opinion linked to a comprehensive collection of up-to-date research evidence:
2010 Annual Evidence Update on Tinnitus - click here
NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
4th International TRI Tinnitus Conference 2010
Frontiers in Tinnitus Research
Organized by the Tinnitus Research Initiative and The
University of Texas at Dallas,
co-sponsered by the American Tinnitus Association
When: June 9 - 11, 2010
Where: Dallas, Texas (USA)
Please mark your calendars for this most important tinnitus
event of the year!
Deadline for abstract submission extended to February 28th, 2010
Detailed information and registration: 
4th
TRI Tinnitus Conference in Dallas/Texas (USA)
PDF 333 kbTINNITUS CLINICS
TRI TINNITUS CLINIC ANTWERP:
Grand Opening on April 22th, 2009.
For more information about the clinic please see
BRAI2N
- Brain Research Center Antwerp for Innovative and Interdisciplinary
Neuromodulation
The opening in the belgian press:
De Standaard Online
De Morgen
Het Nieuwsblad
TINNITUS BOOK
A new tinnitus book is under way.
Again it is Aage
Møller, who initiated this project, and who coordinates the effort of a
large number of scientists and clinicians within the TRI community. The
book “Textbook of Tinnitus” will be published in October 2010 by
Humana/Springer. read more
NEWSLETTER
The latest
newsletter offers a table of interesting Upcoming
Meetings, recently published literature and ongoing clinical trials
MEETINGS
1st France Acouphènes Congress
In November 2009 the France Acouphenes held their first congress, sponsored by the Tinnitus Research Initiative, at the Ministry of Health in Paris.
Download here the dossier of the congress (in french language - 6,23 MB).
3rd Tinnitus Research Initiative Meeting 2009
The Tinnitus Research Initiative thanks all participants
for their active and constructive contribution!
Find more information on the page of the 3rd
TRI Meeting 2009 Stresa/Italy
EFNS 2008 - 12th Congress of the European Federation
of Neurological Societies
Similarities between tinnitus and other CNS disorders suggest
synergistic effects. Read about the work results of the TRI Workgroup
during the EFNS on the topic
Tinnitus: a CNS
disorder. Opportunities and needs of a big market.
TRI AND ITS MEMBERS
RICHARD TYLER (USA) and CLAUDIA BARROS COELHO (Brazil)
Richard Tyler and Claudia Coelho received the Editor's
Award of the American Journal of Audiology for the best
publication in 2008. The paper on "Identifying tinnitus subgroups with cluster
analysis"
meets the highest quality standards in research design,
presentation, and impact for the given year. It is truly a high honor
for Richard Tyler and Claudia Coelho together with their
coauthors Pan Tao,
Haihong Ji, William Noble, Anne K. Gehringer and Stephanie A.
Gogel.
WINFRIED SCHLEE (Germany)
Award of the Schmieder Foundation 2008
Winfried Schlee received the Award of the Schmieder Foundation
2008 for his dissertation on tinnitus research "Towards a Global Model of
Tinnitus Perception: Multiple Evidence for a Long-Range Cortical
Tinnitus Network"
read more (in
german language)
Winner of the "Young Investigator Award" at Biomag 2008
Winfried Schlee received the Young Investigator Award for his excellent
presentation of the TRI-funded work about "Directed Coherence in the Resting
Tinnitus Brain"
during the "International Conference on Biomagnetism" (Biomag). Biomag
is the most important specialized meeting in the field of
magnetoencephalography (MEG). Therefore this award is a high scientific
acknowledgment for Winfried Schlee and his coworkers T. Hartmann, N.
Müller, I. Lorenz, S. Dalal and N. Weisz.
ANA BELÉN ELGOYHEN (Argentine)
New Research Results on the Hair Cell Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor
Ana Belén Elgoyhen, the leader of
the Pharmacological Workgroup,
published in a recent issue of PLOS Biology, that a genetically
modified cholinergic receptor in the inner ear can enhance noise
protecion by the sound limiting system in the inner ear. The
encouraging news is, that there is a real chance of finding
ear-specific drugs for preventing noise trauma and tinnitus in the
future: "A Point Mutation in the Hair Cell Nicotinic
Cholinergic Receptor Prolongs Cochlear Inhibition and Enhances Noise
Protection".
Ana Belén Elgoyhen received the L'Oreal UNESCO
Award
Read about Ana Belén Elgoyhen, leader of the
Pharmacological Workgroup, who is the Laureate 2008 for Latin America
of the "L'oreal UNESCO for women in Science awards"
Among others Ana Belén has been interviewed about Tinnitus for Perfil, an
argentine newspaper.
RONALD GOODEY (New Zealand)
Companion to THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT
"The Queen has been pleased, on the occasion of the
celebration of
the New Year, to make the following appointments to The New Zealand
Order of Merit:
Companion to THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT C.N.Z.M
Dr Ronald John GOODEY, of Auckland. For services to otolaryngology."
Source: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of
New Zealand
We invite you to read the article "Doctor humbled by New Year honour"
in the "East And Bays Courier", which describes work and inspiration of
the ear, nose and throat specialist Dr. Ronald Goodey, who chairs the board of directors
of the Tinnitus Research Initiative.
RICARDO FIGUEIREDO and ANDRÉIA AZEVEDO (Brazil)
Best Oral Presentation
"Tinnitus treatment with Piribedil guided by acoustic otoemissions and electrocochleography" of Ricardo Figueiredo and Andréia Azevedo was awarded as the best oral presentation of the V Congress of the Rio de Janeiro ENT Society.
TANIT GANZ SANCHEZ (Brazil)
President of the X International Tinnitus Seminars
Tanit Sanchez, leader of the Somatosensory Workgroup, was awarded as the President of the X International Tinnitus Seminars, to be hold in Aracaju, Brasil, 2011.
Tanit Ganz Sanchez talked in Brasilian TV about the risk of
tinnitus in the young people with noise exposure.
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