Accompanying person programme

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It is possible to register for the programme or make changes in your personal programme until the 12th of August.

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MONDAY AUGUST 24TUESDAY AUGUST 25WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26

Morning Run

Time: 06:05 - 07:30

*The morning run is a self-organized initiative. Starting point at the Stadsschouwburg at 06:55

Gathering for Canal boat tour

Time: 10:45 - 11:00

Canal boat tour

Time: 11:15 - 12:30

Yoga

Time: 09:30 - 12:30
Karianne Djoyoadhiningrat-Hol

Guided Groninger museum tour

Time: 14:00 - 15:00

Gathering for museum visit & Yoga

Time: 13:30 - 13:45

Stadschouwburg, Groningen

Morning Run

Time: 06:55 - 07:29

*The morning run is a self-organized initiative 

Visit to UMC Groningen

Time: 11:30 - 12:30

Session 11 – Future of CORLAS – a new era!

Time: 14:30 - 15:30

CHAIRS: Barbara Wollenberg (MEMBER, Munchen), Paul Merkus (MEMBER, Amsterdam) & Myrthe Hol (MEMBER, Groningen)

Registration

Time: 07:30 - 08:00

Registration

Time: 07:30 - 08:00

Registration

Time: 07:30 - 08:00

Human inner ear organoids as a platform for developmental biology, disease modelling and translational research

Time: 16:00 - 16:30
Wouter van der Valk (GUEST, Leiden)

Guided Drents museum tour

Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Welcome reception

Time: 18:00 - 20:30

We are delighted to announce that the Welcome reception of CORLAS 2026 will take place on Sunday, 23 August 2026, at the historic Academy building in Groningen: the very place where CORLAS was founded exactly 100 years ago.

This special centennial celebration will be held from 18:00 to 20:30 and will include light refreshments, drinks, and of course the traditional annual group photograph.

We look forward to welcoming you to this memorable evening as we celebrate a century of CORLAS history in the city where it all began.

Anne Frank house visit

Time: 17:00 - 19:00

Check-out & time at leisure in Amsterdam

Time: 11:00 - 15:00

Breakfast

Time: 07:30 - 11:00

Dinner

Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Schiphol airport departure

Time: 16:15 - 17:00

For all participants with an evening flight on Saturday the 29th of August.

Check-in

Time: 16:00 - 16:15

Hoxton hotel

Elfstedentocht tour

Time: 09:30 - 16:00

Hotel Lauwswolt – Sneek | Sneek – Hoorn (lunch) | Hoorn – Amsterdam

Breakfast

Time: 08:00 - 09:30

Dinner

Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Heeren van Harinxma

Time at leisure

Time: 17:00 - 19:00

Hotel Lauwswolt

Bus transfer

Time: 14:30 - 15:00

Lunch & time at leisure

Time: 13:00 - 14:30

Visit Rijks Planetarium

Time: 10:15 - 13:00

Franeker

Gathering for the day tour

Time: 09:30 - 10:15

Breakfast

Time: 08:00 - 09:30

Dinner

Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Bistro Nijholt

Drinks & gathering for dinner

Time: 18:00 - 19:00

Activity to be determined

Time: 15:00 - 18:00

Check-in

Time: 14:50 - 15:00

Hotel Lauswolt

Transfer to hotel & lunch en route

Time: 12:00 - 14:15

Guided Drents Museum tour

Time: 10:30 - 12:00

Drents Museum De Buitenplaats | Eelde

Gathering for bus transfer

Time: 09:30 - 10:30

Stadschouwburg Groningen

Gala dinner

Rietschans | Dresscode: Black tie (theme: Roaring twenties “Charleston”)
Bus coaches departing at 18:00 o’clock from Stadsschouwburg Groningen

*If you want to join the gala dinner, please indicate this separately in your registration

Yoga session

Time: 14:00 - 16:30
Karianne Djoyoadhiningrat-Hol

Lunch

Time: 12:30 - 13:30

Stadschouwburg, Groningen

Guided Groningen city walking tour

Time: 09:30 - 12:30

Gathering for the guided tour & Yoga

Time: 09:00 - 09:30

Stadschouwburg, Groningen

Dinner accompanying persons

Time: 18:15 - 21:00

Nok Forum | Dresscode: Smart casual
Walking distance from Stadsschouwburg Groningen

Guided Groninger museum tour

Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Gathering for museum visit

Time: 13:30 - 14:00

Stadschouwburg, Groningen

Lunch

Time: 12:30 - 13:30

Stadschouwburg, Groningen

Day tour Giethoorn

Time: 09:00 - 17:15

Gathering for the day tour

Time: 08:45 - 08:59

Stadschouwburg, Groningen

Conference dinner

Time: 18:00 - 21:00

Garnwerd aan zee | Dresscode: Smart casual
Bus coaches departing at 18:00 o’clock from Stadsschouwburg Groningen

*If you want to join the gala dinner, please indicate this separately in your registration

Lunch

Time: 12:30 - 13:30

Stadschouwburg, Groningen

Guided Groningen city walking tour

Time: 09:30 - 12:30

Gathering for the guided tour

Time: 09:00 - 09:30

Stadschouwburg, Groningen

Day tour Camp Westerbork: One of Europe’s most important World War II memorial sites

Time: 10:00 - 17:00

Transfer by bus

Time: 09:15 - 10:00

Gathering for the day tour

Time: 08:45 - 09:15

Stadschouwburg, Groningen

Gala dinner

Time: 18:00 - 23:00

Rietschans | Dresscode: Black tie (theme: Roaring twenties “Charleston”)
Bus coaches departing at 18:00 o’clock from Stadsschouwburg Groningen

*If you want to join the gala dinner, please indicate this separately in your registration

End of day 2

Time: 18:00 - 18:15

End of day 1

Time: 17:30 - 18:00

Speaker 1 (keynote) Rene Paas, Kings commissioner Groningen

Time: 09:00 - 09:45

End of day 3 & Coffee to go

Time: 16:00 - 16:15

Closing ceremony | Introduction CORLAS 2027 – Stephen O’Leary

Time: 15:30 - 16:00

Session 10 – Otology

Time: 13:30 - 14:30

Chairs: Shakeel R. Saeed (MEMBER, London), Therese Ovesen (MEMBER, Aarhus)

13:30-13:40 Durable, photografted zwitterionic thin film coatings of cochlear implant electrode arrays reduce intracochlear inflammation fibrosis and electrode impedance-Marlan Hansen (MEMBER, Iowa)
13:40 - 13:50 Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome – A Quarter Century Progress Report, Oral Presentation - John Carey (MEMBER, Baltimore)
13:50 - 14:00 Photon-Counting CT for the lateral skull base: A new era of temporal bone imaging - Stephan Hackenberg (MEMBER, Würzburg)
14:00 - 14:10 Prediction of Hearing Preservation in Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery with a SuperLearner AI/ML Paradigm - Bradley Welling, (MEMBER, Boston)
14:10 - 14:20 Telehealth Strategy to Reduce Waiting Lists in ENT: First-Year Experience in Chile - Mariela Torrente (MEMBER, Santiago)
14:20 - 14:30 Vestibular loss, brain and behavior: a synthesis of our recent work - Yuri Agrawal (NEW MEMBER, Aurora)

Lunch break & visit exhibition

Time: 12:30 - 13:30

Session 9 – From bench to bedside

Time: 10:30 - 12:30

Chairs: Koichi Omori (MEMBER, Kyoto), Carter Van Waes (MEMBER, Bethesda)

10:30 - 10:40 A Multi-Modal Patient-Derived 3D Organotypic Co-Culture Platform for Functional Precision Oncology in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma - Barbara Wollenberg (MEMBER, Munich)
10:40 - 10:50 Biological and genetic characterization of a newly established human external auditory canal carcinoma cell line - Takashi Nakagawa (MEMBER, Fukuoka)
10:50 - 11:00 Comprehensive Analysis of Germline and Somatic Alterations in Carotid Body Tumors - Hiroyuki Ozawa (MEMBER, Tokyo)
11:00 - 11:10 Phenotype-Genotype Associations in Head and Neck Paragangliomas - Stefania Goncalves (NEW MEMBER, Birmingham)
11:10 - 11:20 Targeting FGFR2-Mediated Immune Evasion to Prevent Actinic Keratosis Progression to Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma - Cherie-Ann Nathan (MEMBER, Shreveport)
11:20 - 11:30 Demographic and biochemical characteristics of a cohort of smokeless tobacco users presenting with head/neck cancer in India - Samir Khariwala (NEW MEMBER, Minneapolis)
11:30 - 11:40 Herpesviruses deregulate host cell calcium homeostasis to alter cell identity and facilitate malignant transformation - Matt Lechner (NEW MEMBER, London)
11:40 - 11:50 Opportunities to Improve Patient Care Through Identification of HPV+ HNSCC Subtypes - Travis Schrank (GUEST, Chapel Hill)
11:50 - 12:00 Transoral Laser Microsurgery for Early and Advanced Supraglottic Cancer: Updated Oncologic and Functional Outcomes (1998–2024) - Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen (MEMBER, Barcelona)
12:00 - 12:10 Rehabilitation of dysphagia and voice problems following total laryngectomy in two comparable countries - Preben Homøe (MEMBER, Køge)
12:10 - 12:20 Parathyroid gland Vasculature preservation during total Thyroidectomy: Risk of post operative hypoparathyroidism - Hani Marzouki (MEMBER, Jeddah)

Coffee break & visit exhibition

Time: 10:00 - 10:30

Session 8 – Otology implants

Time: 08:00 - 10:00

Chairs: Antti Aarnisalo (MEMBER, Helsinki) and Ashley Wackym (MEMBER, New Brunswick)

08:00 - 08:08 Cochlear Implants in the Context of a Humanitarian Crisis: Venezuela Case - Juan Armando Chiossone Kerdel (MEMBER, Miami)
08:09 - 08:17 Economic Evaluation of Pediatric Bilateral Cochlear Implantation: Taiwan Study Series - Pa-Chun Wang (MEMBER, Taichung)
08:18 - 08:26 More than 20 years of cochlear implantation in adults with acquired unilateral hearing loss: long term clinical outcomes - Vincent van Rompaey (MEMBER, Antwerpen)
08:27 - 08:35 Standardizing Cochlear Implant Surgery with the Otodrive Otoarm: A Single-Center Experience in 30 Consecutive Cases - Sebastien Schmerber (MEMBER, Grenoble)
08:36 - 08:44 Surgical Challenges of Cochlear Implantation in Children with CHARGE Syndrome - Jong Woo Chung (MEMBER, Seoul)
08:45 - 08:53 Improved Speech Perception in Bimodal Cochlear Implant Users vs. Binaural Hearing Aid users: A Randomized Controlled Trial - Jesper Hvass Schmidt (MEMBER, Odense)
08:54 - 09:02 Individualized Early Activation for Cochlear Implant Patients - Almuhawas Fida (NEW MEMBER, Riyadh)
09:03 - 09:11 Customised Frequency Mapping and Basal Electrode Optimisation in Adult Cochlear Implant Users: A Prospective Crossover Study - Phoebe Ramos (GUEST, Santiago)
09:12 - 09:20 Neural encoding of speech via cochlear implants: Testing competing theories of vowel representations in cochlear-implant users - Andrew Oxenham (MEMBER, Minneapolis)
09:21 - 09:29 NeuroVoc: A Biologically Plausible Vocoder Framework for Auditory Perception and Cochlear Implant Simulation - Johan Frijns (MEMBER, Leiden)
09:30 - 09:38 Simultaneous Multi-electrode Recordings Along Human Scala Tympani: Evidence for Level-Dependent Place Coding - Craig Buchman (MEMBER, Salt Lake City) - Withdrawn
09:39 - 09:47 Next-Generation Drug Y–Eluting Electrodes Improve Hearing Preservation - Adrien Eshraghi (MEMBER, Coral Gables)
09:48 - 09:56 TrueHear Bridges the Gap in Identifying Missed Cochlear Implant Candidacy - Aarno Dietz (MEMBER, Kuopio)
09:57 - 10:00 Discussion

Members dinner

Time: 18:15 - 21:00

A-kerk | Dresscode: Smart casual
Walking distance from Stadsschouwburg Groningen

Session 7 – Great ideas small talks

Time: 16:30 - 18:00

Chairs: Jay Rubinstein (MEMBER, Seattle), Mariela Torrente (MEMBER, Santigao)

16:30 - 16:33 Evolutionary microsurgery: Adapting human mastoidectomy for the Great Ape - Jeffrey Harris (MEMBER, Sacramento)
16:34 - 16:37 A non-invasive approach for intracochlear pressure - Marco Caversaccio (MEMBER, Bern)
16:38 - 16:41 Fifteen Years of Early Activation at KAESC - Abdulrahman Hagr (MEMBER, Riyadh)
16:42 - 16:45 Atypical Intracranial Complications of Cholesteatoma: Skull Base Erosion and Brain Abscess in a Healthy Adult - Traeden Wilson (GUEST, Loma Linda)
16:46 - 16:49 Comparison of manual versus robot-assisted piston prosthesis placement and crimping in a 3D-printed temporal bone model - Yann Nguyen (MEMBER, Paris)
16:50 - 16:53 Circulating Clues in Ménière’s Disease: Elevated Cell-Free DNA and a Pro-Inflammatory Signature in Patients’ Blood - Daniel Bodmeer (MEMBER, Zurich)
16:54 - 16:57 Discovering age- and sex-specific genetic risk factors in sensorineural hearing loss: genome-wide evidence from large-scale biobanks - Argyro Bizaki-Vallaskangas (GUEST, Tampere)
16:58-17:01 A Structural Variant in the 5′ Regulatory Region of DIAPH3 Segregates with Postlingual Hearing Loss and Auditory Neuropathy in a Multigenerational Family-Ricardo Bento(MEMBER, Sao Paulo)
17:02 - 17:05 AAV-Mediated Delivery of SOD1 and Catalase Protects Against Progressive and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss via a Minimally Invasive Approach - Hinrich Staecker (MEMBER, Lawrence)
17:06 - 17:09 Genetic Ablation and Pharmacologic Inhibition of TLR9 Attenuate Noise-Induced Hearing Loss - Chao-Hui Yang (MEMBER, Taotuan)
17:10 - 17:20 Discussion
17:21 - 17:24 Preliminary data on the psychosocial impact of genetic testing in Hereditary Hearing Loss (HHL) underage patients - Giorgia Girotto (MEMBER, Trieste) - Withdrawn
17:25 - 17:28 Otogenic meningitis – occurence and sequele - Ann Hermansson (MEMBER, Lund) - Withdrawn
17:29 - 17:32 Reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus affects prognosis in idiopathic sudden hearing loss - Shinichi Iwasaki (MEMBER, Nagoya)
17:33 - 17:36 Large‑Animal Model Validation and Human Temporal Bone Assessment of a New 32‑Channel Cochlear Implant System - Myung-Whan Suh (GUEST, Seoul)
17:37 - 17:40 Remote Cochlear Implant Care in the Community - Kenichi Takano (MEMBER, Sapporo)
17:41 - 17:44 Intraoperative measurement of residual hearing during cochlear implantation - Wolf-Dieter Baumgartner (MEMBER, Vienna)
17:45-17:48 Not All Vertigo Is of Otologic Origin: The Pathophysiological Implications of C1–C8 and Trigeminal-Cervical Complex Interconnectedness in Cervicogenic Vertigo - Romain Kania (MEMBER Paris)
17:49 - 17:52 Temporal Modulation Sensitivity and Resolution After Otoferlin Gene Therapy in a Long-Term hearing deprived ear - David Horn (MEMBER, Washington)
17:53 - 17:56 Unraveling the molecular underpinning of POU3F4/DFNX2-Related hearing loss - Ronna Hertzano (MEMBER, Bethesda)
17:57 - 18:00 Why cochlear synaptopathy appears to be an early "canary in the coal mine" for neurodegenerative diseases - Jukka Ylikoski (MEMBER, Helsinki) - Withdrawn
17:57 - 18:05 Discussion

Coffee break & visit exhibition

Time: 15:30 - 16:00

Session 6 – Laryngology & Pediatrics & Genetics

Time: 13:30 - 15:30

Chairs: Sharon L. Cushing (MEMBER, Toronto), Anne Schilder (MEMBER, Londen)

13:30 - 13:38 Certification of mastoidectomy performance using simulation-based training - Steven Andersen (NEW MEMBER, Copenhagen)
13:39 - 13:47 Future otosurgical training and prosthesis development: 3D-printed middle ear models and prostheses - Saku Sinkkonen (MEMBER, Helsinki)
13:48 - 13:56 Are expert surgeons a good judge of the surgical difficulty of temporal bone dissection? - Stephen O'LEARY (MEMBER, Melbourne)
13:57 - 14:05 Otoferlin – a master mind of synaptic sound encoding - Tobias Moser (MEMBER, Göttingen)
14:06 - 14:14 Congenital profound hearing loss due to MYO7A variants: assessing the risk of associated visual impairment - Ronald Pennings (MEMBER, Nijmegen)
14:15 - 14:23 Diagnostic Yield of Whole-Genome Sequencing in Hearing Impairment: A Five-Year Study in a Large German Cohort - Hubert Löwenheim (MEMBER, Tübingen)
14:24 - 14:32 Association Between Disease Severity and Vestibular Dysfunction in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea - Wei-Chung Hsu (MEMBER, Taipei)
14:33 - 14:41 -Sleep Apnoea Hypoxic Burden, AHI, and Daytime Sleepiness Improvement During Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation - Olivier M Vanderveken (MEMBER, Antwerpen)
14:42 - 14:50 Development and regulatory approval of zopapogene imadenovec-drba, the first FDA-approved treatment for adults with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis - Clint Allen (GUEST, Bethesda)
14:51 - 14:59 Rethinking Laryngeal Stenosis: The Rise of Reconstructive Transoral Laser Microsurgery - Ihab Atallah (MEMBER, Grenoble)
15:00 - 15:08 The Vodka Trial: Clinical and Genetic Characteristics of Alcohol Responsiveness in Laryngeal Dystonia - Kristina Simonyan (MEMBER, Boston) - Withdrawn
15:09 - 15:17 What We Let Children Swallow: Pediatric Esophageal Foreign Body Trends, Social Determinants, and the Case for Equity-Informed Prevention - Nikolaus Wolter (NEW MEMBER, Toronto)
15:18 - 15:26 Airway Management and Endoscopic Predictors in Inhalation Injury: A Nationwide Multicenter Study in Japan - Taku Yamashita (MEMBER, Sagamihara)
15:26 - 15:30 Discussion

Lunch break & visit exhibition

Time: 12:30 - 13:30

Session 5 – Otology & audiology

Time: 10:30 - 11:29

Chairs: Matti Anniko (MEMBER, Uppsala), Pim van Dijk (MEMBER, Groningen)

10:30 - 10:40 High Tinnitus Prevalence and regional heterogeneity in Switzerland: First Nationally Representative Data and Pan-European Benchmarking - Tobias Kleinjung (MEMBER, Zurich)
10:40 - 10:50 Toward an Objective, Scalable Diagnosis of Tinnitus: From Thalamocortical Dysrhythmia to Connectivity-Based Machine Learning - Jae-Jin Song (NEW MEMBER, Seoul)
10:50 - 11:00 O84 central auditory genes related to tinnitus - Allen Ryan (MEMBER, San Diego)
11:00 - 11:10 Tinnitus-related quality-of-life improvement after stapes surgery: postoperative SPOT-25 findings from a consecutive single-center series - Nicola Antonio Adolfo Quaranta (MEMBER, Bari)
11:10 - 11:20 Outcomes of a large-scale pilot hearing screening program at an academic medical center - Judy R. Dubno (MEMBER, Charleston)
11:20 - 11:30 Using Bayesian optimisation techniques to automate audiometry - Nish Mehta (NEW MEMBER, London)
11:30 - 11:40 Audio-visual pairing improves localization of stationary but not moving sound in children with hearing loss - Karen Gordon (MEMBER, Toronto)
11:40 - 11:50 Let’s talk about memory. Introducing a brief memory assessment in hearing aid clinics for older adults. - Anne Schilder (MEMBER, London)
11:50 - 12:00 Endolymphatic Hydrops Patterns Across Third Mobile Window Disorders and Meniere’s Disease: Accounting for Bilateral Ear Clustering - Ja-Won Koo (MEMBER, Seoul)
12:00 - 12:10 Hyperbaric Oxygen as Third-Line Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss After Failed Steroid Therapy - Chanan Shaul (NEW MEMBER, Jerusalem)
12:10 - 12:20 Otologic Surgery Improved Quality of Life of the Patients: A Multicenter Study in Japan - Sho Kanzaki (MEMBER, Kawasaki)
12:20 - 12:30 Core Outcome Set for Reporting Results of Cholesteatoma Surgery from the International Otology Outcome Group Consensus Study - Paul Merkus (MEMBER, Amsterdam)

Coffee break & visit exhibition

Time: 10:00 - 10:30

Session 4 – Rhinology & skullbase

Time: 08:00 - 10:00

Chairs: Lars Olaf Cardell (MEMBER, Stockholm) and Valerie Lund (MEMBER, London)

08:00 - 08:10 A within-person trial of hot saline irrigation at 42 °C for endoscopic sinus surgery - Mizuo Ando (MEMBER, Okyama)
08:10 - 08:20 Central Olfactory Disorders - Basile Landis (MEMBER, Genève)
08:20 - 08:30 Prospective Comparison of Nasal Patency in Patients Undergoing Septoplasty - What Works Best? - Andro Košec (MEMBER, Zagreb)
08:30 - 08:40 Fibrocytes as Key Mediators of Type 2 Inflammation in Asian Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps - Te-Huei Yeh (MEMBER, Taipei)
08:40-08:50 Hearing Loss and Balance Disturbance in Vestibular Schwannoma are Associated with Enrichment of Distinct, Targetable, Pro-inflammatory Myeloid Phenotype-Anil Lalwani(MEMBER, New York City)
08:50 - 09:00 Intraoperative Cochlear Nerve Assessment with ANTS to Guide Cochlear Implantation Across Diverse Clinical Scenarios - Luis Lassaletta Atienza (MEMBER, Madrid)
09:00 - 09:10 Lateralized Olfactory Function in Long-Term Follow-Up of Post-Infectious and Post-Covid Olfactory Disorders - Antje Welge-lüssen (MEMBER, Basel)
09:10 - 09:20 NADPH Oxidase 3 Inhibition Preserves Hearing in Mice After Stereotactic Radiosurgery - Pascal Senn (MEMBER, Geneva)
09:20 - 09:30 Optimizing odorants for olfactory training based on olfactory receptor–ligand pair analysis - Kenji Kondo (MEMBER, Tokyo)
09:30 - 09:40 Posterior Nasal Neurectomy for Allergic and Non-Allergic Rhinitis: Efficacy, Safety, and Predictive Factors - Arkadi Yakirevitch (MEMBER, Tel Aviv)
09:40 - 09:50 Sinonasal Inflammatory, Malignant, and Sensory Diseases: Integrated Multi-Omic and Translational Insights from Bench to Bedside - Ji Heui Kim (GUEST, Seoul)
09:50 - 10:00 The molecular landscape of inner ear schwannoma - Stefan Plontke (MEMBER, Halle)

Conference dinner

Time: 18:00 - 21:00

Garnwerd aan zee | Dresscode: Smart casual
Bus coaches departing at 18:00 o’clock from Stadsschouwburg Groningen

*If you want to join the dinner, please indicate this separately in your registration

Sustainable Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery – Symposium

Time: 16:45 - 17:45

Session 3 – Great ideas small talks

Time: 15:30 - 16:15

Chairs: Lotje Zuur (MEMBER, Amsterdam), Tessa A. Hadlock (MEMBER, Boston)

15:30 - 15:33 Creating Accurate Structured Hearing Aid Usage Data from Unstructured Free Text Notes Using a Large Language Mode - Justin Golub (GUEST, New York City)
15:34 - 15:37 Development and Application of Arabic Speech Matrix Test in Children with Cochlear Implantation - Tamer Mesallam (MEMBER, Riyadh)
15:38 - 15:41 Neurophysiological Effects of Active Noise Cancellation in Noisy Environments: Integrated Evidence from fNIRS and EEG - Il Joon Moon (GUEST, Seoul)
15:42 - 15:45 Active Sampling of Space: Compensatory Head Orienting as a Marker of Asymmetric Hearing - Hillary Snapp (GUEST, Miami)
15:46 - 15:49 Smartphone-Based 3D Facial Motion Analysis for Objective Evaluation of Facial Nerve Palsy - Tsuyoshi Kojima (GUEST, Kyoto)
15:50 - 15:53 Toward a Wearable Device for Facial Reanimation - Tessa Hadlock (MEMBER, Boston)
15:54 - 15:57 Serum LDH/ALT Ratio as a Prognostic Factor in Head and Neck Cancer Treated with Immunotherapy- Yukinori Takenaka (MEMBER, Otsu)
15:58 - 16:01 Disease-specific survival in patients with hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A machine learning model - Antti Mäkitie (MEMBER, Helsinki)
16:02 - 16:05 The Consultation Room of the Future: Human Centered AI to Support Decision Making in Oncology - Richard Dirven (GUEST, Nijmegen)
16:06 - 16:09 Nasal Vestibule Squamous Cell Carcinoma: a paradigm shift for a neglected disease - Francesco Bussu (MEMBER, Rome)
16:10 - 16:13 Transoral Robotic Supra-cricoid Laryngectomy as Salvage Treatment for Recurrent Glottic Cancer after Irradiation Failure - Chen-Chi Wang (MEMBER, Taichung)
16:14 - 16:17 Translational Fluorescence-Guided Surgery for Head and Neck Cancer: From Optical Innovation to Clinical Implementation - Stijn Keereweer (GUEST, Rotterdam)
16:18 - 16:30 Discussion
Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Testing as a Biomarker for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Infants, Diego Preciado (MEMBER, San Diego) - Withdrawn

Coffee break & visit exhibition

Time: 15:00 - 15:30

Session 2 – Microbiome, Margins and More (3M)

Time: 13:30 - 15:00

Chairs: Robert L. Ferris (MEMBER, Chapel Hill), Sandro Stoeckli (MEMBER, St. Gallen)

13:30 - 13:38 Dysbiotic Signatures and Activity Profiles of the Oral Microbiome in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma - Jan Plzák (MEMBER, Prague)
13:38 - 13:46 The Tumor Microbiome as a Driver of Head and Neck Cancer Progression - Stephan Lang (MEMBER, Essen)
13:46 - 13:54 The crosstalk between EBV and the bacterial microbiome in nasopharyngeal carcinoma tumor microenvironment - Jason Chan (NEW MEMBER, Hong Kong)
13:54 - 14:02 Towards Virtual 3D Surgical Specimens to Guide Head and Neck Radiation Therapy Planning - Eitan Prisman (NEW MEMBER, Vancouver)
14:02 - 14:10 Precision Surgery: 31,000 years and counting - Maie St John (MEMBER, Baltimore)
14:10 - 14:18 Intraoperative Bedside Margin Assessment in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery using IntraVital Microscopy integrated with AI - Woo-Jin Jeong (GUEST, Seoul)
14:18 - 14:26 Bevonescein - First-in-Class intraoperative nerve visualization drug - Phase 3 data - Quyen Nguyen (MEMBER, San Diego)
14:26 - 14:34 Low skeletal muscle mass in head and neck cancer - Remco de Bree (MEMBER, Utrecht)
14:34 - 14:42 Nutritional prehabilitation in patients with head and neck cancer - Inge Wegner (GUEST, Groningen)
14:42 - 14:50 Establishment of a large-scale PDX library of head and neck cancers for functional precision oncology - Ichiro Tateya (MEMBER, KYOTO)
14:50 - 15:00 Discussion

General Assembly

Time: 16:30 - 17:30

Lunch break & visit exhibition

Time: 12:30 - 13:30

Session 1 – Otology

Time: 10:20 - 12:30

Chairs: D. Bradley Welling (MEMBER, Boston) & Ronald Pennings (MEMBER, Nijmegen)

10:20 - 10:30 - Clinical Experience with AK-OTOF Gene Therapy for Otoferlin Gene (OTOF)-mediated Hearing Loss. - Michael Mckenna (MEMBER, Indianapolis)
10:30 - 10:40 A rare regenerative subpopulation of cochlear supporting cells defines a potential target for hearing restoration - Karen Avraham (MEMBER, Tel Aviv)
10:40 - 10:50 AAV gene transfer for inducing hair cell regeneration in the mature mammalian cochlea - Yehoash Raphael (MEMBER, Ann Arbor)
10:50 - 11:00 Application of Genome Editing to a Mouse Model of DFNA20 - Wade Chien (NEW MEMBER, Baltimore)
11:00 - 11:10 Engineering of functional auditory neurons from human induced pluripotent stem cells - Konstantina Stankovic (MEMBER, Stanford)
11:10 - 11:20 Evolutionary divergence shapes the success of gene therapy for hearing restoration - Aziz Amraoui (MEMBER, Paris)
11:20 - 11:30 Genotype–Phenotype Correlations of Hearing Loss Progression in Alport Syndrome: A Longitudinal Study - Tatsuo Matsunaga (NEW MEMBER, Tokyo)
11:30 - 11:40 Postnatal SLC26A4 Gene Therapy Restores Hearing and Defines a Translational Therapeutic Window in DFNB4 - Yen-fu Cheng (MEMBER, Taipei)
11:40 - 11:50 Chd7-lineage cells contribute to multiple structures in the developing inner ear - Donna Martin (GUEST, Ann Arbor)
11:50 - 12:00 Elaborating upon the biology of age-related hearing loss - Mike Bowl (NEW MEMBER, London)
12:00 - 12:10 In-depth Proteomic Profiling of Age-Related Hearing Loss in Mouse Cochleae Using Laser Microdissection and LC-MS/MS - Norio Yamamoto (MEMBER, Kobe)
12:10 - 12:20 Three-dimensional motion measurements within the living mammalian cochlea - John Oghalai (MEMBER, Los Angeles)
12:20 - 12:30 Targeting Cisplatin-Induced Ototoxicity: Integrating Experimental Insights into Clinical Protection - Anna Rita Fetoni (MEMBER, Napels)

Coffee break & visit exhibition

Time: 09:45 - 10:15

Welcome; Opening, awards & history of CORLAS

Time: 08:00 - 08:55

Chairs: Myrthe Hol (MEMBER, Groningen), Pim van Dijk (MEMBER, Groningen) & Antti Mäkitie (MEMBER, Helsinki)
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