{"id":1711,"date":"2015-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-674\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:31:00","slug":"innovation-anthology-674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2015\/03\/19\/innovation-anthology-674\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #674:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 674.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Arial;\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073711037 9 0 511 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Trebuchet MS\";\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:none;\n\tmso-hyphenate:none;\n\tmso-layout-grid-align:none;\n\tpunctuation-wrap:simple;\n\ttext-autospace:none;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">Tinnitus is that ringing in the ears that accompanies hearing loss.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">There&#8217;s no cure or effective treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">But Dr. Michael Kyweriga at the University of Lethbridge hopes his research with mice will change that.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">His interest in tinnitus began with the US Marine Corp. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">Now with funding from Alberta Innovates Health Solutions, Michael is<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>developing new techniques to determine where tinnitus occurs in the brains of mice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">DR. MICHAEL KYWERIGA: <\/span><\/strong><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">What<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I want to do is use<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>these new optigenetic tools at the University of Lethbridge which basically<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I just remove a piece of the skull, put a sterile glass cover slip over the window, and then seal it in place with dental acrylic.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>And now I can then basically pt a camera right in front of this window and<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>the transgenic ability of these cells to light up when they fire action centrals.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I can observe the entire auditory cortex over time and<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"color:black\">I can watch the brain change into the tinnitus state, and then put the animal into the startling booth and then ask it, what is the sound your tinnitus?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:\n9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\">Dr. Michael Kyweriga says it will be some time before his research translates into treatment for humans.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\"><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">Thanks today to <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\">Alberta Innovates Health Solutions<\/strong><\/span><\/em><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;\ncolor:black\"><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;\ncolor:black\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;\ncolor:black\">FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY, <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;\ncolor:black\">I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;\nmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aihealthsolutions.ca\">Alberta Innovates Health Solutions<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alberta Innovates (formerly Alberta Innovates &ndash; Health Solutions) <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p>As the newly formed Alberta Innovates corporation, we still fund top  quality, internationally competitive health&nbsp;research and innovation  activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans.&nbsp;We provide  leadership for Alberta&rsquo;s health research and&nbsp;innovation enterprise by  directing, coordinating, reviewing, funding and supporting&nbsp;research and  innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Working&nbsp;with our many partners&nbsp; in the health system, we ensure that research achieves innovation  in&nbsp;care, policy and practice, and that the needs of patients and  clinicians influence&nbsp;research.<\/p>\n<h3>Our&nbsp;background<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alberta Innovates<\/a> consolidation was launched November 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alberta Innovates &ndash; Health Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alberta Innovates &ndash; Health Solutions was established as part of the Alberta Innovates system by an Act of Legislation of the Government of Alberta. 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