Minoo Lenarz, born Minoo Moshrefi (Persian: مینو مشرفی; 18 September 1966 – 2 December 2015), was an Iranian-German Professor and medical scientist.

Minoo Lenarz (Moshrefi)
Born(1966-09-18)18 September 1966
Died2 December 2015(2015-12-02) (aged 49)
NationalityIranian-German
SpouseThomas Lenarz
Scientific career
FieldsOtorhinolaryngology

Early life and education

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Minoo Moshrefi was born in Tehran in 1966. She studied medicine at the Iran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran from 1985 to 1993. She gained her specialist degree in the field of Otorhinolaryngology with the best results among the Iranian students in 1997.[1] In the same year, she received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a three-year training course in the field of cranial basic surgery in Germany and came to Hanover, where she worked under Majid Samii and Thomas Lenarz.[2][3][4][5]

Career

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After completing her sabbatical study at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles, she returned to Germany and received her Ph.D. from Hannover Medical School in 2001. She was the head of the "Auditorial Brainstem and Middle Brain Implants" research group at the Medical University of Hanover from 2002 to 2010, where she cooperated with her future husband, Thomas Lenarz.

During this time she was involved in development of an Auditory Midbrain Implant (AMI), a new hearing prosthesis designed for stimulation of the inferior colliculus in deaf patients who cannot sufficiently benefit from cochlear implants.[6][7][8] In 2008, she defended her post doctoral thesis in the field of Otorhinolaryngology and received permission to teach in this field.

In 2010, she began to work at the Charité medical university in Berlin.[9]

Her work in the field of audiology and Otorhinolaryngology contributed to the establishment of the Hearing4all Cluster of Excellence. [10][11][12]

She died on 2 December 2015 in Hanover.

References

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  1. ^ Minoo Lenarz, Der Tagesspigel, 6.December 2015
  2. ^ "Klinik für Hals-, Nasen-, Ohrenheilkunde (CBF) - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Klinikdirektorin". 22 December 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Lim, Hubert H.; Lenarz, Thomas; Joseph, Gert; Battmer, Rolf-Dieter; Samii, Amir; Samii, Madjid; Patrick, James F.; Lenarz, Minoo (5 December 2007). "Electrical Stimulation of the Midbrain for Hearing Restoration: Insight into the Functional Organization of the Human Central Auditory System". Journal of Neuroscience. 27 (49): 13541–13551. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3123-07.2007. PMC 6673101. PMID 18057212.
  4. ^ Lim, Hubert H.; Lenarz, Thomas; Joseph, Gert; Battmer, Rolf Dieter; Samii, Amir; Samii, Madjid; Patrick, James F.; Lenarz, Minoo (5 December 2007). "Electrical stimulation of the midbrain for hearing restoration: Insight into the functional organization of the human central auditory system". Journal of Neuroscience. 27 (49): 13541–13551. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3123-07.2007. PMC 6673101. PMID 18057212.
  5. ^ Lenarz, Minoo; Lim, Hubert; Joseph, Gert; Rost, Urte; Samii, Amir; Samii, Madjid; Lenarz, Thomas (2009). "Auditory Midbrain Implant: Present Clinical Results and Future Directions". Skull Base. 19 (1): A106. doi:10.1055/s-2009-1222220.
  6. ^ Lim, HH; Lenarz, M; Lenarz, T (2009). "Auditory midbrain implant: a review". Trends Amplif. 13 (3): 149–80. doi:10.1177/1084713809348372. PMC 4111439. PMID 19762428.
  7. ^ Lim, Hubert H.; Lenarz, Minoo; Lenarz, Thomas (2009). "Auditory Midbrain Implant: A Review". Trends in Amplification. 13 (3): 149–180. doi:10.1177/1084713809348372. PMC 4111439. PMID 19762428.
  8. ^ Lenarz, Thomas; Lim, Hubert H.; Reuter, Guenter; Patrick, James F.; Lenarz, Minoo (1 September 2006). "The Auditory Midbrain Implant: A New Auditory Prosthesis for Neural Deafness-Concept and Device Description". Otology & Neurotology. 27 (6): 838–43. doi:10.1097/01.mao.0000232010.01116.e9. PMID 16936570.
  9. ^ "Klinik für Hals-, Nasen-, Ohrenheilkunde (CBF) - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Klinikdirektorin". 22 December 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ^ "Hearing4all". hearing4all.eu.
  11. ^ "MH-Hannover: Exzellenzcluster Hearing4all". www.mh-hannover.de.
  12. ^ Berding, Georg; Wilke, Florian; Rode, Thilo; Haense, Cathleen; Joseph, Gert; Meyer, Geerd J.; Mamach, Martin; Lenarz, Minoo; Geworski, Lilli; Bengel, Frank M.; Lenarz, Thomas; Lim, Hubert H. (5 June 2015). "Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Reveals Auditory and Frontal Cortical Regions Involved with Speech Perception and Loudness Adaptation". PLOS ONE. 10 (6): e0128743. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1028743B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128743. PMC 4457827. PMID 26046763.