From December 25 to 26, the 6th Chinese Hearing Research Conference, co-host by the Hearing, Speech and Communication Studies Academic Subgroup of Biophysical Society of China and the Shenzhen Medical Association, was held in Shenzhen. The conference was also co-organized by Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (SZBL) and Shenzhen People’s Hospital, with Zhiqiang Yan, Senior Scientist of SZBL Institute of Molecular Physiology and Zhaoyang Ke, Professor of Shenzhen People’s Hospital as common chairpersons of the conference. Around 100 scholars and experts from academic and industrial sector attended the conference.

The 6th Chinese Hearing Research Conference seeks to provides an occasion for the China domestic hearing research community to share new concepts and technology, facilitate discussion and interaction on trending research topics and to increase the depth of thought with relevant basic and translational research for the field. The conference also builds up a platform that assembles researchers and clinical practitioners for further exchange and may lead to potential collaboration.

Hu Xiaojun, Party Committee Secretary of SZBL, attended the conference and delivered remarks. He congratulated the opening of the conference and highly affirmed the great significance of this national gathering to the development of hearing research. He also expressed that SZBL would continue to support for scientific research and hoped that connections with all attended parties could be deepened to jointly move forward hearing research as a whole.

Nie Guohui, Chief Director of Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital gave remarks and hosted the conference. He pointed out that this year’s conference to be held in Shenzhen is of great importance to the city’s development in hearing research and related clinical study. He also expressed gratitude to all support and preparation from each keynote speaker of the event.

The conference had 20 prestigious experts of hearing research to give presentations. Attendees joined the event both on-site or through web-based access to exchange and discuss issues regarding mechanisms of hearing diseases, clinical diagnosis, hearing assistive technology and so forth.