2025 PARTNERS

Turner Scientific
Innovation Partner
Turner Scientific is a preclinical contract research organization (CRO) that specializes in
testing the safety and efficacy of hearing and balance therapeutics that are locally or
systemically applied. It offers computer simulation of drug distribution to the ear (Salt’s FluidSim model) as well as a wide range of animal models from cochlear explants and spiral ganglion cultures through in vivo models in mouse, rat, guinea pig, and miniature pig.

Cilcare
Innovation Partner
Cilcare is a biotech company specializing in auditory sciences with an R&D platform that promotes the collaborative development of drugs, gene therapies, and cell therapies for hearing loss, tinnitus, synaptopathy, and other associated diseases. Cilcare’s unique expertise bears on the very deep assessment of the auditory function, both in clinical and preclinical stages, with pharmacological models using advanced techniques related to the ear, including complex drug delivery, formulation, fluid/tissue sampling, biodistribution, efficacy and ototoxicity assessment, immunohistochemistry, histology, electrophysiology, and microsurgery.