Decibel Therapeutics, Inc. discovers and develops medicines to protect, repair, and restore hearing. The firm focuses on hearing disorders, including noise-induced hearing loss, residual hearing preservation or improved sound fidelity with cochlear implants, presbycusis or age-related hearing loss, tinnitus, a persistent ringing in the ears, and genetic hearing loss. It also offers drugs for pediatric cancer and cystic fibrosis patients who experience ototoxicity or hearing loss. The company was founded by Kevin Paul Starr, M. Charles Liberman, Gabriel Corfas, Ulrich Müller, and Albert Edge in October 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.