Prof. Christine Petit is Bringing the Deaf out of the World of Silence

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29 septembre 2015

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Christine Petit, « Prof. Christine Petit is Bringing the Deaf out of the World of Silence », La lettre du Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/lettre-cdf.2206


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Christine Petit’s work on hearing and hereditary deafness, of major importance for hearing-impaired young people, should also improve the life of the elderly. The cochlea, the sensory organ of hearing, is virtually an open book for Christine Petit, professor at the Collège de France and the Institut Pasteur, and head of the INSERM Unit 1120 (Genetics and Physiology of Hearing). She is behind the discovery of a great number of genes responsible for deafness and associated faulty mechanisms, as...

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