Canada Researcher Awarded $130,000 Epilepsy Research Grant
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
A Canadian researcher is receiving $130,000 to further his research into the origin of epilepsy seizures through the Susan S. Spencer Clinical Research Training Fellowship funded by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Foundation, the American Epilepsy Society, and the Epilepsy Foundation. Piero Perucca, MD,a postdoctoral fellow in epilepsy at McGill University in Montreal Canada, was awarded the fellowship for his work investigating special forms of electrical activity in the brain of patients with epilepsy to better define where seizures originate.