About the Authors

Lingchao Ji

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Otolaryngology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Affiliation Kresge Hearing Research Institute and Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Beatriz C. Borges

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kresge Hearing Research Institute and Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

David T. Martel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kresge Hearing Research Institute and Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Calvin Wu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kresge Hearing Research Institute and Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

M. Charles Liberman

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School. Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan E. Shore

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Kresge Hearing Research Institute and Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Gabriel Corfas

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

corfas@med.umich.edu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Kresge Hearing Research Institute and Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

GC and MCL were scientific founders of Decibel Therapeutics, hadequity interest in the company and have received compensation for consulting. SES and DM are scientific founders of Auricle, Inc and have equity interest in the company. Neither company was involved in this study.