Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer, Dipl.-Ing.Dr.techn.DDr.med.h.c., electrical engineer from Technical University of Vienna, developed with her husband Prof. Erwin Hochmair the first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant in the world. In 1980 she co-founded together with Prof. Erwin Hochmair the medical device company MED-EL and serves as its CEO and CTO. In 2013, she was honored together with two more scientists with the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for developing the modern cochlear implant.
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