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Hundred of thousands of people around the world can hear thanks to our implants. But getting here was a long journey. It goes back almost 50 years to when MED-EL CEO Ingeborg Hochmair and her [...]

The cochlea is full of delicate structures, and the goal of a cochlear implant surgery is structure preservation. Here's what MED-EL does.

Claude Jolly is MED-EL’s director of cochlear implant electrode array development, leading the research and design of our flexible electrode arrays. Since joining MED-EL in 1998, Claude has [...]

A behind-the-scenes look at how a cochlear implant is made. This is part 3, which shows research and development of the MED-EL cochlear implant.

A behind-the-scenes look at how a cochlear implant is made. This is part 2, which shows manufacturing of the MED-EL cochlear implant.

A behind-the-scenes look at how a MED-EL cochlear implant is made. This is part 1, which shows manufacturing of the cochlear implant electrode array.

Cochleae come in different shapes and sizes, so of course MED-EL electrode arrays also come in a range of shapes and sizes. But what’s the difference between the electrode arrays, and why are [...]

Earlier we showed you a bit about how the FMT puts the “sound” in the VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE middle ear implant, and now it’s time to do the same for cochlear implant. For a CI, it’s the [...]

One of the main parts of the implant in a cochlear implant system is the electrode. Electrodes send electrical pulses to the nerve cells within the cochlea. It sounds simple, right? But if they [...]