ATLANTA—Jenny Hsieh, PhD has been elected Member-at-Large of the American Epilepsy Society (AES), which is dedicated to advancing research and education for preventing, treating and curing epilepsy. Dr. Hsieh’s term will begin at the end of the Society’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA on December 5-8, 2025. She will serve as Member-at-Large 2026 through 2028.
Dr. Hsieh is professor and founding chair of Neuroscience, Developmental & Regenerative Biology at UT San Antonio and founding director of the Brain Health Consortium. A long-time AES volunteer, she serves as co-chair of the AES Research & Training Council (January 2022-December 2025), previously co-chaired the AES Early Stage Grant Review (2018–2021), served on the Research & Recognition Awards Committee, and has mentored trainees through the AES Fellows Program and the AES BRIDGE Internship while regularly organizing and presenting at AES meetings. An NIH-funded epilepsy and stem-cell neuroscientist with 70 publications and 3 patents, she received the 2025 NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship.
For more information, visit the American Epilepsy Society online at aesnet.org. Join the AES social conversation today by following @AmEpilepsySoc on X and use the hashtag #AES2025.