2025 PERF^®-CNS Career Development Awards

July 17, 2025

 

Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the PERF^®-CNS Career Development Research Grant Awards.

PERF^®-CNS Elterman Research Grant Award 

Recipient: Joseph Vithayathil, MD, PhD
Project Title: Mechanisms of cell-specific iron dysregulation and effect on injury severity in a murine model of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury
Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Read Dr. Vithayathil’s bio here.

PERF^®-CNS Shields Research Grant Award

Recipient: Eric Chin, MD
Project Title: Testing a central neuropathic pain hypothesis in individuals with cerebral palsy: Precision phenotyping to enable mechanistic pain diagnosis
Institution: Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
Read Dr. Chin’s bio here.