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Greek Doctor Working on Tinnitus Treatment

TzounopoulosResearchers at the University of Pittsburgh led by Greek Professor, Thanos Tzounopoulos, claim  they are close to finding a way to prevent tinnitus, a debilitating condition that affects hearing. Associate Professor Thanos Tzounopoulos, from the School of Medicine at the  University of Pittsburgh, said he and his team gave mice a drug for epilepsy (approved by the federal government of the United States) while exposing them to loud noises.

Mice given the drug had no tinnitus. Half of the mice that did not receive the epilepsy drug  had tinnitus. “This development was and continues to be exciting,” Tzounopoulos said. “This is a development that opens the road to many interesting possibilities.”

After earning his undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Athens in Greece, Tzounopoulos went to the US as a Fulbright scholar. He was awarded his PhD in Molecular and Medical Genetics at the Oregon Health and Science University in 1997.  He then completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California at San Francisco, the Vollum Institute and at the Oregon Hearing Research Center.

Tzounopoulos was appointed Assistant Professor at the Chicago Medical School in May 2006 and moved to the University of Pittsburgh in November 2008.

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