When he was 14 months old, Peter Steyger, PhD, contracted bacterial meningitis. Physicians in his native Manchester, United Kingdom, managed to save his life through a course of aminoglycoside antibiotics, but a side-effect of those drugs robbed him of his hearing.
Creighton’s Translational Hearing Center aims to prevent drug-induced hearing loss
- By Creighton University
Peter Steyger, PhD, will join Creighton University in May as director of the Translational Hearing Center. His research has received a major grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
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