Early Career Award and Conference

Early Career Epilepsy Research Award Conference

We held our inaugural Early Career Epilepsy Award Conference on Thursday, May 1, 2025

Our Steering Committee selected four awardees from a pool of 23 extremely high-quality submissions.

Our outstanding 2025 awardees were:

Chaitanya Ganne, MD, PhD: “Optimizing Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy Using Patient-Specific Multi-Atlas Segmentation”

Koichiro Haruwaka, PhD: “Microglial Interaction with Neurovasculature in the Maintenance of Blood-Brain Barrier in Acute Seizures”

Costin Leu, PhD: “Deep Whole Genome Sequencing of Epileptogenic Brain Lesions”

Oman Magaña-Tellez, PhD: “Premortem Sleep and Sleep Related Biomarkers of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)”

The remaining applicants were invited to present their work during a poster session preceding the awardee presentations, and we were very pleased that 12 applicants were able to present posters.

Mark your calendars for our second annual Early Career Epilepsy Research Award Conference scheduled for Thursday, May 7, 2026 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Applications will open in Spring 2026.

Photos from our 2025 Conference coming soon!