2024 TRANSLATIONAL GRANT AWARD WINNER
Dr. David Dyment
Investigator, CHEO Research Institute
Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa
Grant Project: Translational Lipidomics:Treatment of a novel mouse model of progressive
myoclonic epilepsy with repurposed drugs and recombinant enzyme
NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2023 WINNER
Elie Bou Assi, B.Eng. M.Eng. Ph.D.
IVADO Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal
Principal Scientist, University of Montreal Hospital Research Center
Grant Project: Wearable-based monitoring of people with epilepsy in a residential setting
NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2023 WINNER
Dr. Justin Botterill, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology (College of Medicine)
University of Saskatchewan
Grant Project: Projections from the supramammillary nucleus to the dentate gyrus: a novel source of hippocampal hyperexcitability and sleep-related seizures
NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2023 WINNER
Dr. Shaun Sanders, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology University of Guelph
Grant Project: The role of palmitoylation of voltage-gated sodium channels in epilepsy
NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2022 WINNER
Dr. Gregory Costain, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics The Hospital For Sick Children.
Grant Project: GeneSTEPS: a prospective evaluation of the impact of early genetic diagnosis on outcomes in paediatric epilepsy
GRACE PEEBLES NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2022 WINNER
Dr. Kenneth Alexis Myers, MD PhD FRCPC, CSCN, Assistant Professor Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre. Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. Pediatric Programs: Developmental & Behavioral Pediatric Services.
Grant Project: Can Epilepsy Surgery Improve Abnormal Heart Rate Variability in Children?
NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2022 WINNER
Karl Martin Klein, MD PhD FRCPC Associate Professor Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Medical Genetics and Community Health Sciences Hotchkiss Brain Institute & Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Grant Project: Somatic mutations in nonlesional epilepsy identified using purified neuron and astrocyte nuclei from stereo-EEG electrodes
NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2022 WINNER
Dr. Qi Zhang, MBBS, PhD, FRCPC, Neuropathologist and Assistant Professor of Pathology & Lab Medicine and Clinical Neurological Sciences, London Health Sciences Centre, Western University.
Grant Project: Characterizing the Suprabulbar Autonomic Involvement in Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2021 WINNER
Dr. Yun Li, Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
Grant Project: Engineering a somatic mosaic human brain organoid model of epilepsy
NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2021 WINNER
Dr. Colin Josephson, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Community Health Sciences, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Centre for Health Informatics & Hotchkiss Brain Institute - University of Calgary
Grant Project: Leveraging a multisource precision medicine and advanced analytics to reduce the burden of pharmacoresistant epilepsy
NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2021 WINNER
Dr. Lisa Julian, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Grant Project: Investigating lysosome activation as a driver of pediatric epilepsy using human cell models