The Institut de l'audition is a laboratory of the

Pasteur Institute The Pasteur Institute (, ) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax and rabies. Th ...

(Paris) working on basic and medical research on

hearing Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium. The academic field concerned with hearing is auditory sci ...

, inaugurated on February 27, 2020, by

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Édouard Philippe Édouard Charles Philippe (; born 28 November 1970) is a French politician serving as Mayor (France), mayor of Le Havre since 2020, previously holding the office from 2010 to 2017. He was Prime Minister of France from 15 May 2017 to 3 July 202 ...

. It is a unité mixte de recherche between the Institut Pasteur and

Inserm The (Inserm, ) is the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. History and organisation Inserm was created in 1964 as a successor to the French National Institute of Health. Inserm is the only public research institution ...

which includes scientific staff from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm and

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

. It benefits from the support and financial support of the

Fondation pour l'audition The Fondation Pour l'Audition is a French scientific foundation for research about hearing impairment. The foundation is located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Overview The ''Fondation Pour l'Audition'' was created in 2015 by François ...

. The ''Institut de l'audition'' aims to bring together doctors, researchers but also innovation players, industrialists, associations and patients.

References

External links

Institut de l'audition website
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