She is the Director of the Department of Audiology and a Principal Investigator in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA. She serves on the faculty of the Program in Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology at Harvard University. Work in the Kujawa laboratory seeks to clarify how normal inner ear structures and functions are altered by aging and by noise exposure, how vulnerability to these changes is shaped by an individual’s genetic background, and how these processes can be manipulated pharmacologically to reveal underlying mechanisms or for treatment or prevention. She is involved in a biomedical – engineering research partnership that seeks to develop drug delivery systems suitable for chronic use in the human inner ear.