Second Vice President
Jaideep Kapur, M.D., Ph.D., is Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor and Vice Chair (Research) of Neurology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He treats patients with epilepsy and studies mechanisms underlying epilepsies.
Dr. Kapur’s laboratory is concerned with understanding function and plasticity of inhibitory neurotransmission in the central nervous system, with a special focus on alterations that occur in animal models of epilepsy. Recent studies have focused on trafficking of GABA-A receptor during seizures. The laboratory’s translational studies focus on novel treatment strategies for status epilepticus, life-threatening seizures. These studies also characterize alterations in excitatory neurotransmission during status epilepticus.
Dr. Kapur obtained his medical training from the Maulana Azad Medical College of the University of Delhi, New Delhi, India and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, under the guidance of Dr. Eric W. Lothman, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He did his residency training in Neurology at the Medical College of Virginia of the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, and Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship training at the University of Michigan. He was trained in Dr. Robert Macdonald’s laboratory with support from the Lennox postdoctoral fellowship and a mentored Clinician Investigator Development Award from NINDS.