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Toward A Cure…
Research is the key to the future for people with hard to control seizures. Approximately 120,000 children will experience a first-time seizure and 45,000 will be diagnosed with epilepsy each year. Medical treatment of childhood epilepsy is getting better, and research towards a cure continues.
The Epilepsy Foundation supports a series of grants to advance the understanding of epilepsy that will lead to better treatment, more effective prevention, and ultimately to a cure. Each year the Foundation invites research investigators to apply for grants and fellowships to test new ideas and follow new research leads. The applications, more than two hundred in an average year, are ranked according to merit by a blue ribbon panel of research scientists and funded according to available resources.
Two research initiatives directly focus on pediatrics and youth:
The Partnership for Pediatric Epilepsy Research is a collaboration between American Epilepsy Society and Epilepsy Foundation working to support innovative research into pediatric epilepsy, its causes, and potential avenues for new treatments and cures. The collaboration is supporting novel, investigator-initiated studies which emphasize pediatric epilepsies, and specifically focus on increasing knowledge of causes and promoting innovative treatment approaches and a cure for epilepsies that begin in infancy and childhood.
The Targeted Research Initiative for Youth grant program recognizes the increasing need for epilepsy and seizure research in populations from children through adolescence involving pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, behavioral manifestations, medication therapy, and quality-of-life issues.
For more information about the Foundation’s Research Program please visit our website at http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/research/ or contact us at grants@efa.org
For the latest epilepsy research news and information please visit http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/research/news/April2010.cfm
