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Newswise WEST HARTFORD, Conn., April 14, 2014 Today, the American Epilepsy Society (AES) released its list of new fellowship awardees, naming 15 recipients for the organizations early-career awards. The fellowship recipients come from academic institutions and medical schools throughout the U.S. and include clinicians and basic scientists who are focused on many different components of epilepsy treatment and research. The winners were selected from a competitive pool of applicants and they will receive funding for one year.
The AES provides more than $800,000 to support research training grants for clinicians, research grants and pre- and post-doctoral research and training fellowships. Each year, AES clinical and basic science fellowship awardees are selected for their novel approaches to epilepsy care and research innovations that can help lead to new therapies and increase the understanding of epilepsy.
Providing early-career awards is central to the mission of AES, said Elson So, M.D., AES president. As our Society works to deepen understanding of the underlying mechanisms of epilepsy and stimulate innovations and new developments in epilepsy treatment, it is critical that we help the next generation of epilepsy research leaders to launch and establish their careers.
This is a strong group of awardees, each of whom will bring new ideas and advanced science to help increase our understanding of epilepsy, said Kimford Meador,M.D., chair of the AES Research & Training Council. AESs commitment to funding young researchers at this critical stage in their career development helps assure that we will continue to have the best minds working in the field in coming years.
The fellowship recipients and their areas of study are:
Lidia Moura, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Understanding the quality of care that improves outcomes in epilepsy
Shennan Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Phase locked high frequency oscillations as biomarker of epileptogenicity
Karthik Rajasekaran, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center GABAergic neurotransmission at CA2 neurons in temporal lobe epilepsy
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American Epilepsy Society Announces Fellowship Award Recipients