PERF Partners Archives - PERF® (Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation)

2024 PERF® -CNS Bridge Grant Award

August 7, 2024

Congratulations to Andra Dingman, MD, PhD, the first recipient of the 2024 PERF® -CNS Bridge Grant Award.
PERF^® in partnership with the Child Neurology Society (CNS) inaugurated the PERF^®-CNS Bridge Grant Program to retain child neurology researchers. This program is designed to provide bridge funding to promising child neurology researchers who are applying for their first independent National Institutes […]

2024 PERF® -CNS Career Development Awards

August 7, 2024

Congratulations to Viola Caretti, MD, PhD recipient of the PERF^®-CNS Elterman Research Grant Award and Mauro Caffarelli, MD, recipient of the PERF^®-CNS Shields Research Grant Award.
PERF^®-CNS Elterman Research Grant Award
Dr. Caretti’s project, Decoding sex-specific neutrophil function in neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy will investigate the reason for poorer outcomes among males following hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
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Multicenter Neonatal Seizure Registry (NSR)

March 4, 2023

The Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation® spotlights the Neonatal Seizure Registry, co-led by Dr. Hannah Glass and Dr. Renée Shellhaas. The Neonatal Seizure Registry was created in 2014 with support from a PERF^® infrastructure grant. The initial study enrolled more than 600 consecutive newborns with seizures at 7 tertiary/quaternary US Pediatric Hospitals. Results from this work […]