SUDEP Institute Challenge: FINAL MILESTONE (#3): Developing Predictive Biomarkers of Epilepsy Sz

Each year, more than 1 out of 1,000 people with epilepsy die from sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, known as SUDEP. If seizures are not controlled, the risk increases to 1 out of 150. One way the Epilepsy Foundation SUDEP Institute is trying to save lives and end SUDEP is with a series of four multidisciplinary prize challenges. 1. The fir...

Applications accepted: 7/25/17 - 10/10/20
Funder: Epilepsy Foundation
Tags: Models, Clinical Epilepsy, Mechanisms, Devices, Technologies, Stem Cells, Biomarkers, SUDEP

Susan S. Spencer Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Epilepsy

This $150,000 two-year award provides support to fellows and/or new faculty to pursue a career in patient-oriented research. The award is offered in honor of the late Susan S Spencer, MD, an internationally renowned epileptologist and past president of the American Epilepsy Society. It is jointly supported by the American Epilepsy Society, the Amer...

Applications accepted: 6/25/20 - 10/1/20
Funder: American Epilepsy Society

DSF Research Grants

Research Grant Awards are the largest type of grant awarded by DSF. These grants are intended for established, experienced, independent investigators affiliated with a research or academic institution whose proposed projects investigate hypotheses directly related to Dravet syndrome. Proposals are scored according to NIH guidelines based on the qua...

Applications accepted: 8/21/20 - 9/4/20
Funder: Dravet Syndrome Foundation
Tags: Dravet Syndrome, SCN1A