Juliet Knowles, Megan Wyeth and Christopher Makinson awarded American Epilepsy Society grants.
June 28, 2016
Three School of Medicine researchers have received early-career awards from the American Epilepsy Society.
Juliet Knowles, MD, PhD, a chief resident in neurology, received an AES Research and Training Fellowship for Clinicians, which includes a $50,000 award to study the effect of recurrent seizures on myelin structure and plasticity.
Megan Wyeth, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in comparative medicine, received an AES Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which includes a $45,000 award to study the inhibitions of interneurons in a model of temporal lobe epilepsy.
Christopher Makinson, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in neurology and neurological sciences, received an AES/Wishes for Elliott Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which includes a $45,000 award to use a 3-D human culture platform to test therapies for a type of epilepsy caused by a genetic mutation known as SCN8A.
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