Taha Jan Lab

Congratulations to one of our audiologists, Andie DeFreese, on receiving the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award last night.

Congratulations to members of the lab: Sushobhan Biswas, Ruiqi Zhou, Andie DeFreese, and Will Shin for amazing presentations at ARO Mid Winter Meeting 2026 in San Juan, PR! I'm very lucky to be working with such talented and dedicated team members! @VanderbiltENT

We're excited to announce our new match for our Neurotology Fellowship for 2026-2028, Dr. David Lee from WashU! #Match2025 #neurotology #ent #VUMC #MedTwt

Big news from our team!🎉 The @TahaJanLab and The Otology Group at Vanderbilt were recently awarded an NIH R21 grant to investigate the molecular and physiologic architecture of the adult human inner ear. #VUMC #ENT #Otology #MedTwitter

This past weekend we celebrated the completion of 7 long and difficult years of surgical training of Ankita Patro. She finishes as a master surgeon, clinician and investigator. She will be missed in Nashville.

As rankings begin to roll in, we're proud to announce that we've been ranked #8 for best ENT hospital program in the nation by @usnews and #1 in @NIH funding for Otolaryngology by the Blue Ridge Institute! 🏆👏 #departmentawards #ENT #NIH #USNWR #medicalinnovation

Our faculty will be presenting on various topics revolving around VS treatment and management at this year's World Vestibular Schwannoma Awareness Day event this Saturday! You can register to attend here: eventbrite.com/e/2025-world-v…

Congratulations to @realAbelDavid and team for this recently published collaborative work from our lab! "Crosstalk Signaling Between the Epithelial and Non-Epithelial Compartments of the Mouse Inner Ear" link.springer.com/article/10.100… @JARO_News @VanderbiltENT @ChengEarLab

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Sushobhan Biswas for being awarded the American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) Discovery Grant!!! @susho_03 @VanderbiltENT @HearingResearch @EBCVanderbilt american-hearing.org/purpose-impact…

*Assessing MCID values for 3CochlearImplant related speech recognition scores enables better patient counseling and interpretation of implant outcomes. @AnkitaPatro15 @TahaJanLab @KareemTawfikMD1 @marcbennett6 @rhgifford @haynes_ear @thestatsurgeon journals.lww.com/otology-neurot…

Congratulations to Chisako Tanaka and Andie DeFreese for their 2025 ARO Travel Awards!! @ajdefreese @VanderbiltENT @VUMCHearSpeech 🎉

@HHMIJanelia Beautiful Biology visual series highlights The Beauty of Hearing using one of our experiments from Woods Hole, MA in the Biology of the Inner Ear course (circa 2017) @InnerEar_MBL @VanderbiltENT beautifulbiology.netlify.app/media-detail/b…

Everyone who came to our Vanderbilt Surgeon Scientist Symposium- THANK YOU. Great faculty and inspirational residents and junior faculty.

We kicked off day 2 of our #Research Symposium with a wonderful presentation from Dr. Debara Tucci on "Global Impact of Hearing Loss, and Efforts to Improve Accessibility" @NIH @Rhinology_ENT #HearingLoss #MedicalResearch #ENT #NIH

#SciArt for #NSLHM: A mouse cochlea (purple) grown in cell culture, and neurons (orange) that send information from the cochlea to the brain. Credit: #NIDCDgrantee Dr. Taha A. Jan, and Dr. Mirko Scheibinger, @mblscience

Congrats to Angela Ling & Ruiqi Zhou and all who contributed to this collaborative work!!! @VanderbiltENT @ChengEarLab @StanfordOHNS nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations to Angela Ling for her co-authorship on this recently published collaborative paper! "An essential signaling cascade for avian auditory hair cell regeneration." @VanderbiltENT authors.elsevier.com/c/1iHu15Sx5gtx…

Congratulations to Sarah Easow for her co-authorship on this recently published collaborative work! @VanderbiltENT nature.com/articles/s4146…

The 2023 Inaugural Research Trainee Retreat was held last Friday, May 12th! The event provided trainees with an opportunity for professional development through presentations of research and interactions with fellow researchers, faculty, and outside speakers.

@StanfordOHNS Honored to be a guest speaker at the @StanfordOHNS inaugural Research Trainee Retreat! @VanderbiltENT