This episode explores the promise of translational science through cross-campus, cross-school collaboration between NUCATS and a professor of communication at Northwestern, that could help the 48 million Americans with hearing loss. Along with his groundbreaking research into the physiology and the mechanics of the ear, Sumit Dhar, PhD, is turning his attention to hearing healthcare delivery and understanding why so few people seek hearing healthcare. With the help of NUCATS, he is exploring the idea of creating a clinical trial network for affordable hearing healthcare as well as other living documents and guidelines that will offer experts in his field a roadmap to making hearing healthcare more accessible and utilized.

Some of the most successful biomedical innovations from the lab of John A. Rogers, PhD, are the result of an email or phone call he received from a clinician, with a real-world problem impacting patients. In this episode, Rogers, a Northwestern University biomedical engineer, whose work involves novel material science, talks about his collaboration with the medical community and why his often-untraditional approach to academic research is helping to accelerate translational science.

This season on Science in Translation, we will explore how Northwestern University's interdisciplinary culture drives discovery and impact, harnessing diverse expertise to address society's most challenging problems. In this episode, Eric J. Perreault, PhD, Vice President for Research at Northwestern University, discusses the power of collaboration and how Northwestern's deeply interdisciplinary culture across multiple schools and units drives research and real world impact.