This lecture is co-sponsored by: ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science
Graeme Clark led the research that resulted in the first clinically approved multiple-channel cochlear implant, providing speech understanding in profoundly deaf people. His basic research was also crucial in establishing this could be achieved safely, including a minimal risk of meningitis. It thus became the first sensory-neural prosthesis to effectively bring electronic technology into functional relationship with the central nervous system and human consciousness. His research also established that the multiple-channel implant provided effective speech perception and language in profoundly deaf children, and it was thus the first major advance in helping these children communicate in the last 250 years.
For his research, Graeme Clark has received numerous national and international awards and honours, including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, and an Honorary Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons. In 2007, he was awarded the Zülch Prize from the Max Planck Society, Germany’s highest award in neuroscience, in 2010 he was awarded the Lister Medal, the most prestigious prize in the world for surgical science, and in 2011 the Zotterman medal from Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and the CSL Howard Florey medal, Australia’s top award in medical science.
Professor Clark was a key figure in the research and development of the Bionic Ear – a multiple-channel Cochlear Implant. More than 220,000 people worldwide have now been fitted with cochlear implants.
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This lecture is co-sponsored by: ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science
Graeme Clark led the research that resulted in the first clinically approved multiple-channel cochlear implant, providing speech understanding in profoundly deaf people. His basic research was also crucial in establishing this could be achieved safely, including a minimal risk of meningitis. It thus became the first sensory-neural prosthesis to effectively bring electronic technology into functional relationship with the central nervous system and human consciousness. His research also established that the multiple-channel implant provided effective speech perception and language in profoundly deaf children, and it was thus the first major advance in helping these children communicate in the last 250 years.
For his research, Graeme Clark has received numerous national and international awards and honours, including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, and an Honorary Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons. In 2007, he was awarded the Zülch Prize from the Max Planck Society, Germany’s highest award in neuroscience, in 2010 he was awarded the Lister Medal, the most prestigious prize in the world for surgical science, and in 2011 the Zotterman medal from Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and the CSL Howard Florey medal, Australia’s top award in medical science.
Professor Clark was a key figure in the research and development of the Bionic Ear – a multiple-channel Cochlear Implant. More than 220,000 people worldwide have now been fitted with cochlear implants.
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