Dr. Teru Kamogashira is an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Tokyo. His main clinical interests include vestibular science, otology, and neurotology, as well as basic research in the auditory and vestibular fields. His current research topics encompass the labyrinth vestibule, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, the utricle labyrinth vestibule, mastoids, the center of pressure presbycusis, noise-induced hearing loss, and hearing impairment. Dr. Teru Kamogashira also established a method for evaluating the mitochondrial function of cochlear hair cells in both mouse models and cultured cell models and confirmed that the disruption of mitochondrial network homeostasis due to failures in mitochondrial fusion and segregation induces cellular senescence in inner ear sensory cells.