Cochlear implant creator honoured with top US prize

摘要

The creator of the cochlear implant, a revolutionary device that enables people born or made deaf through disease or trauma to hear and recognise speech, has won a top international award in clinical medical research. Graeme Clark, emeritus professorat the University of Melbourne, was presented with the prestigious Lasker DeBakey at a ceremony in New York on Friday. He shared the prize with Austrian Ingeborg Hochmair and American Blake S. Wilson, two researchers who played a prominent role in the development and efficacy of the prosthesis.