Determining causes and improving diagnostics of epilepsy with focal cortical dysplasia
EXPLORE PILOT STUDY £30,000 over 24 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Dissecting Somatic mTOR Pathway Mosaicism in Focal Cortical DysplasiaIIA/B to Develop Minimally Invasive Screening Too [...]
Characterisation of a new antiepileptic drug
EXPLORE PILOT STUDY £25,966 over 12 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Targeting neuronal homeostasis to treat epilepsy LEAD INVESTIGATOR Professor Richard Baines CO-INVESTIGATORS Col [...]
Scanning technique to identify abnormal brain areas
EXPLORE PILOT STUDY £28,804 over 12 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Assessment of the mechanical properties of epileptogenic lesions using magnetic resonance elastography: a new diagnost [...]
New tools for assessing mouse models
CÉLINE NEWMAN BURSARY £20,000 over 18 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Multimodal telemetry of mouse behaviour: Developing new tools for assessing epilepsy phenotypes and treatments. LE [...]
Seeing inside: non-invasive brain mapping of epileptic activity (SINIMA)
ENDEAVOUR PROJECT GRANT £165,055 over 36 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Seeing inside: non-invasive brain mapping of epileptic activity (SINIMA) LEAD INVESTIGATOR Dr Khalid Hamandi [...]
Discovering outcomes from treating children’s mental health
ENDEAVOUR PROJECT GRANT £128,578 over 36 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Mental health treatment for children with epilepsy: outcomes for education, health and parents LEAD INVESTIGATO [...]
Understanding and treating DNM1 epilepsy
ENDEAVOUR PROJECT GRANT £154,537 over 24 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE DNM1 Epileptic Encephalopathy – mechanism and therapy LEAD INVESTIGATOR Professor Mike Cousin COLLABORATORS [...]
Assessing when and why epilepsy treatment fails to work
EMERGING LEADER FELLOWSHIP AWARD £298,775 over 48 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Quantifying the effect of treatment using non-invasive recordings and computational modelling LEAD INV [...]
Brain-based predictors of autism in infants with epilepsy
ERUK & AUTISTICA FELLOWSHIP AWARD £299,987 over 40 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Neural markers of emerging autism in infants with epilepsy LEAD INVESTIGATOR Dr Charlotte Tye [...]
Investigating breath testing and sweat analysis to help diagnosis
PROJECT GRANT £188,666 over 24 months Awarded in 2020 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Volatile Non-Invasive Biomarkers of Epileptic Seizures (VIBES) study LEAD INVESTIGATOR Professor Matthew Walker CO-INV [...]
Improving diagnostic procedures for epilepsy through artificial intelligence
PROJECT GRANT £75,203 over 36 months Awarded in 2019 SCIENTIFIC TITLE Improving diagnostic procedures for epilepsy through automated recording and analysis of patient’s history LEAD INVESTIGATO [...]
Exploring a promising new drug target to stop seizures in their tracks
2019 FELLOWSHIP AWARD £247,133 over 36 months SCIENTIFIC TITLE Neurogliaform interneurons: a promising inhibitory target to stop focal and generalised seizures LEAD INVESTIGATOR Dr Vincent Mag [...]