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LOI Submission Closed for the PERF® 2025 Grant Year
October 31, 2024

The Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation® is accepting a letter of intent (LOI) for the Infrastructure/Registry Research Grant in any area of pediatric neurology. The submission deadline is 5 pm Central on Thursday, October 31, 2024. The LOI Template (a fillable Word document) is available to download here.
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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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