Taking Flight
Gary Brennan, PhD / Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
This work aims to characterise RNA regulation and function in pre-clinical mouse models of epilepsy and in human epileptic tissue, and understand how aberrant regulation of RNA can contribute to the development of epilepsy.
Taking Flight
Flavia Vitale, PhD / University of Pennsylvania
With support from CURE, Dr. Vitale will build these new devices and test them in animal models of focal epilepsy, to detect and map seizure generation and spread.
Taking Flight Award
Yu Wang, MD, PhD / University of Michigan
Utilizing a unique combination of methods including the use of human stem cells and genome editing methods to examine focal cortical dysplasia-related epilepsies in vitro (in culture) and in vivo (in live animals), Dr. Wang and his team will provide new insights into the mechanisms of focal cortical dysplasia and uncover useful platforms for drug discovery.
Innovator Award, Funded by the Heldman-Kirshner Family Grant in Honor of Alex Heldman
Tore Eid, MD, PhD / Yale University
The goal here is to investigate whether certain types of gut bacteria can stop or trigger seizures and how they are able to do so.
