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Rachael Richardson

BSc (Hons), PhD 2001

Senior Research Fellow, Bionics Institute

P: +61 3 9929 8397
F: +61 3 9663 1958
E: rrichardson@bionicsinstitute.org

Dr Richardson received a BSc degree in Biochemistry and Pathology from the University of Melbourne. She received her BSc(Hons) and PhD degrees from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research investigating novel genes for suppression of cytokine signaling in the Department of Cancer and Haematology. Since 2001, she has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Bionics Institute. Her principal aims have been reversing deafness using neurotrophic factors and improving the nerve-electrode interface of the cochlear implant.

At the Bionics Institute Dr Richardson works with a research team that includes Dr Andrew Wise, Prof. Rob Shepherd, Prof. Stephen O’Leary, Dr James Fallon, Brianna Flynn and Courtney Suhr. Dr Richardson has collaborative projects with Prof Cliff Hume from the University of Washington and researchers at the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong, in particular Prof. Gordon Wallace, Dr Simon Moulton and Brianna Thompson.

Research fields of interest

  • Protecting auditory nerves after sensorineural hearing loss
  • Regenerating auditory nerve dendrites after sensorineural hearing loss
  • Improving the cochlear implant nerve-electrode interface
  • Gene transfer in the cochlea
  • Protection of residual hearing during cochlear implantation

Research projects

Publications

  1. RT Richardson, A Wise, B Thompson, B Flynn, P Atkinson, N Fretwell, J Fallon, G Wallace, R Shepherd, G Clark and S O’Leary (2009) Polypyrrole-Coated Electrodes for the Delivery of Charge and Neurotrophins to Cochlear Neurons (2009) Biomaterials 30: 2614-2624

  2. RT Richardson, AK Wise, JK Andrew and SJ O’Leary. Novel drug delivery systems to treat inner ear diseases (2008) Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery 5(10); 1-18

  3. Evans, A., Thompson, B., Wallace, G., Millard, R., O’Leary, S., Clark, G., Shepherd, R. and RT Richardson (2008) Promoting Neurite Outgrowth from Spiral Ganglion Neuron Explants using Polypyrrole/BDNF-Coated Electrodes Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A (In press)

  4. James, DP., Eastwood, H., Richardson, RT and S. O’Leary (2008) Effects of round window dexamethasone on residual hearing in a guinea pig model of cochlear implantation Audiology and Neurotology 13:86-96

  5. Richardson, RT, Thompson, B, Moulton, S, Newbold, C, Lum, M, Cameron, A, Wallace, G, Kapsa, R, Clark, G and S O’Leary. The effect of polypyrrole with incorporated neurotrophin-3 on the promotion of neurite outgrowth from auditory neurons (2007) Biomaterials 28; 513-523

  6. Pettingill, LN, Richardson, RT, Wise, AK, O’Leary, S, and RK Shepherd. Neurotrophic factors and neural prostheses: potential clinical applications based upon findings in the auditory system (2007) IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Special Issue: Sensory Neural Prostheses 54(6); 1-11.

  7. Wise, AK, Gillespie, LN and RT Richardson. (2007) Neurofilament proteins in the cochlea: Changes in response to deafening and neurotrophin administration. In: (Arlen RK. (ed). New Research on Neurofilament Proteins; 1-24.

  8. Richardson, RT, Noushi, F and S. O’Leary. Inner ear therapy for neural preservation (2006) Audiol Neurotol 11;343-356.

  9. Thompson, BC, Moulton, SE, Ding, J, Richardson, RT, Cameron, A, O’Leary, S, Wallace, GG and Clark, GM. Optimizing the incorporation and release of a neurotrophic factor using conducting polypyrrole (2006) J. Cont. Rel. 116; 285-29410.

  10. Noushi, F, Richardson, RT, Hardman, J, Clark, G and O’Leary S. Delivery of neurotrophin-3 to the cochlea using alginate beads (2005) Otol. Neurotol. 26; 528-533

    11. See more publications by Rachael Richardson in PubMed

 

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