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Amanda M. Lauer

Amanda M. Lauer, MS, PhD

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Languages

  • English

Gender

Female

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

About Amanda M. Lauer

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Background

Amanda Lauer is the George T. Nager Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. Her research focuses on understanding how auditory dysfunction relates to peripheral and brainstem changes across the lifespan and with noise exposure, understanding how the brain affects auditory function, resilience and plasticity via innate efferent noise-control pathways, and studying comparative otopathology in traditional animal models, wild species and human temporal bones.

Her lab emphasizes a team science approach, collaborating with colleagues across departments and schools at Johns Hopkins, the University at Buffalo, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular and elsewhere to address research questions using techniques from molecular and synaptic nanoscales to in vivo behavior.

Dr. Lauer earned a Master of Science from St. Joseph’s University and a doctoral degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.

An active educator for both basic scientists and clinicians, Dr. Lauer serves as co-director of the NIH-funded Research Training Program in Otolaryngology for residents and medical students and as vice director for faculty affairs.

Dr. Lauer is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and serves on a number of advisory and grant review committees. As a Ph.D.-trained scientist, DR. LAUER IS UNABLE TO PROVIDE PATIENT CARE.

Centers and Institutes

Center for Hearing and Balance, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution

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Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Professor of Neuroscience

Contact for Research Inquiries

alauer2@jh.edu

Research Interests

Auditory brainstem, Efferent feedback to the cochlea, Hearing loss, Noise, Aging, Hearing in Vertebrates

Lab Website

Lauer Lab - Lab Website

Google Scholar - Publications

PubMed - Publications

Selected Publications

Publications: Peer Reviewed Original Science Research

Andresen NS, Kehoe Winslow M, Gregg L, Seal SM, Lehar M, Ward BK, Lauer AM (2022). Insights into presbycusis from the first temporal bone laboratory within the United States. Otol Neurotol, 43(3):400-408. 

Capshaw G, Vicencio-Jimenez S, Screven LA, Burke K, Weinberg M, Lauer AM (2022). Physiological evidence for delayed age-related hearing loss in two long-lived rodent species (Peromyscus leucopus and P. californicus). J Assoc Res Otolaryngol, 23, 617-631.

Zhang Y, Hiel H, Vincent PF. Wood MB, Elgoyhen AB, Chien W, Lauer A*, Fuchs PA (2023). Engineering olivocochlear inhibition to reduce acoustic trauma. Mol. Therapy-Methods & Clin. Devel. 29, 17-31. *Role: involved in execution and interpretation of experiments.

Burke K, Screven LA, Vicencio-Jimenez S, Lauer AM (2024). Auditory brainstem response audiometry in a tauopathy mouse model of human Alzheimer’s Disease.

Capshaw G, Diebold CA, Adams DM, Rayner J, Wilkinson GS, Moss CF, Lauer AM (2024). Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus). Proceedings Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 291, 20241560.

Honors

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  • Elected Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2023
  • Faculty Mentorship Award, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology, 2023
  • Discovery Award, Johns Hopkins University, 2018
  • Diversity and Inclusion Program Recognition for Service in Mentorship, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology, 2017
  • American Hearing Research Foundation Research Award, 2011
  • National Organization for Hearing Research Award, 2010
  • Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Postdoctoral National Research Service Award, NIDCD, 2008
  • Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional Postdoctoral National Research Service Award, NIDCD, 2007
  • Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral National Research Service Award, NIDCD, 2002
  • Graduate Psychology Award, St. Joseph's University, 2000

Memberships

  • Acoustical Society of America
  • Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • Society for Neuroscience

Additional Training

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 2011, Otolaryngology

Expertise

Education

  • University of Maryland (College Park), Ph.D., 2006
  • St. Joseph's University, M.S., 2000
  • St. Joseph's University, B.S., 1999