2012/2013 Junior Investigator Award Recipients
AES, in collaboration with the Epilepsy Foundation, the Lennox & Lombroso Trust, the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation, Sunovion and Eisai, Inc. awarded the following research and training awards for the 2012/2013 academic year:
- Pre-doctoral Fellowships
- Post-doctoral Fellowships
- Susan Spencer Clinical Research Training
- Lennox & Lombroso Predoctoral Fellowship
- Christopher Dengler
University of Pennsylvania
"Circuit Contributions of Adult and Seizure-Induced Neurogenesis" - Sarah Guadiana
University of Florida
"Contribution of Cilia Defects to Neuronal Activity in Developing Cortex" - Larisa Kruger
University of Michigan
"Physiological Consequence of an Epilepsy Mutation in the VGSC Beta 1 Subunit" - Nealen Laxpati
Emory University
"Optogenetic Medial Septal Neuromodulation to Control Hippocampal Seizures" - Emma Soldner
University of Minnesota
"Seizures Beget Seizures: Role of Blood-brain Barrier Leakage in Epilepsy" - Xinjun Wang
University of Wyoming
"The Role of BNDF in the Maturation of Axo-axonal Synapses" - Baouyen Tran
Baylor College of Medicine
"Characterizing KCNQ2 Mutations in Severe Neonatal Encephalopathy"
- Sarah Brandt, Ph.D.
Washington University
"Defining ECoG Resting State Networks Associated with Focal Epilepsy" - Jeff Boychuk, M.D.
University of Kentucky
"A Role for Interleukin-6 in Epileptogenesis" - Matthew Weston, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
"mTOR, Epilepsy and Synaptic Transmission" - David Auerbach, Ph.D. (funded with Eisai, Inc.)
University of Michigan
"Sudden Cardiac Death in a Severe From of Childhood Epilepsy: Mice and Men" - Zhihong Chen, Ph.D. (funded with Sunovion)
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
"The Pathogenic Role fo Activated Microglia in Epilepsy" - Geogina MacKenzie, Ph.D.
Tufts University
"Investigating the Mechanism of Stress Induced Seizure Susceptibility" - Lei Sun, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
"Screening for Seizure Modifiers in a Drosophila Knock-in Model of SMEI"
Susan Spencer Clinical Research Training
Lennox & Lombroso Predoctoral Fellowship
- Michael Hester
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
"mTOR regulation of hippocampal granule cell pathology in epilepsy"