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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Allied Minds backs ear-ringing therapy firm

By Galen Moore

A Boston-area technology transfer company hopes to help a university spinout bring to market a treatment for tinnitus, a ringing in the ears that affects nearly one in five people, and is the number-one disability for U.S. troops returning from combat, according to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

SoundCure Inc. aims to commercialize an acoustic therapy developed by researchers at the University of California at Irvine.

The company, which will be based in California, is backed by a partnership between UC Irvine and Allied Minds Inc., a Quincy-based seed investment corporation specializing in early-stage university business ventures.

The technology would replace therapies involving long retraining regimes or drug treatments that carry side effects, according to a press release issued today. The SoundCure treatment uses customized sound frequencies and pulsed tones designed to counter the effects of tinnitus, and is shown to provide long-term suppression of the syndrome, the press release stated.

“There’s really not a good way to deal with it,” said Chris Silva, CEO at Allied Minds.

 

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