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