2005 Recipients

Early Career Physician-Scientist Awards

Beate Diehl, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Project: Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and Tractography of the Accurate Fascicle (AF) in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Controls
Mentor: Hans O. Lüders, M.D., Ph.D.

Paolo Federico, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP(C), CSCN
Foothills Medical Center, Calgary
Project: High Frequency Oscillations and the Pre-Ictal State
Mentor: Samuel Wiebe, M.D.

Martin J. Gallagher, M.D., Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Project: Developing Pharmacological Interventions to Mitigate a Specific Autosomal Dominant Form of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
Mentor: Robert L. Macdonald, M.D., Ph.D.

Christina Gurnett, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
Project: Identification of a Seizure Susceptibility Gene Common to Both Mendelian and Complex Inherited Epilepsy
Mentor: Edwin Trevathan, M.D.

David Hsu, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics
Project: A Dynamic Model for Firing Rate and Critical Homeostasis: Implications for Epileptogenesis
Mentor: Thomas P. Sutula, M.D., Ph.D.

Eric Marsh, M.D., Ph.D.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Project: Infantile Spasms
Mentor: Amy Brooks-Kayal, M.D.

Anapurna Poduri, M.D.
Children's Hospital Boston
Project: To Identify Regions of DNA Deletion or Duplication Associated with the Development of MCD
Mentor: Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

Milken Translational Research Awards

Alison L. Barth, Ph.D.
Mellon Institute
Project: Seizure Prevention Using BK Channel Antagonists

Xiao-Yuan Lian, Ph.D.
Janet L. Stringer, M.D., Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Project: Targeting Glycolysis as a New Approach to the Treatment of Epilepsy