Category: Research Grant Awardees
The Story Behind the Shields Research Grant
March 27, 2024
IN THE SPOTLIGHT, features Dr. Christopher (Chris) Giza at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine as the first recipient of the Shields Research Grant in 2007. This award, which was initially supported by the Winokur Family Foundation but has been fully supported by PERF® since 2018.
Dr. Shields, PERF®’s Vice-President and Secretary shared how the research […]
2023 AES/PERF® Research Training Fellowship for Clinicians Award
July 6, 2023
PERF® is pleased to announce the 2023 recipient of the AES/PERF Research Training Fellowship for Clinicians Award. Jillian McKee, MD, PhD is a pediatric epilepsy fellow at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She received a $50,000 research grant to support her project, “Reconstructing the longitudinal disease history in SYNGAP1-related disorder”. Her award was funded at […]
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