Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation?

2025 RESEARCH GRANT OPPORTUNITIES funding all areas of child neurology research. PERF??in partnership with the Child Neurology Society seek eligible early stage investigators to apply for one of these research grants. 1. PERF?-CNS Elterman Research Grant supports clinical or basic science research. Application deadline: April 11, 2025. 2. PERF?-CNS Shields Research Grant supports clinical or translational research. Application deadline: April 11, 2025. 3. PERF?-CNS Bridge Grant which is intended to retain early stage investigators in child neurology clinical, translational, or basic research while they re-apply for NIH or Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) funding. Application deadline: April 14, 2025. Eligibility details, submission guidelines, and application forms are downloadable at https://lnkd.in/g5zdhq2d

In partnership with the Child Neurology Society, the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation??(PERF?), is currently accepting applications for the 2025 PERF-CNS Bridge Grant. This grant is intended to retain investigators in child neurology clinical, translational, or basic research. Eligible applicants are CNS members who have applied for their first NIH R01 or Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating/Project Grant but were not yet funded. This $50,000 grant requires a 1:1 match from the awardee's institution to make $100,000 available to the recipient. The application deadline is April 14, 2025. For more information, please refer to the submission guidance at https://lnkd.in/gK4wWBeE If you have questions about your eligibility, we encourage you to reach out to [email protected]

Congratulations to Andra Dingman, MD, recipient of the Inaugural PERF-CNS Bridge Grant Award; Rose Gelineau Morel, MD, 2024 PERF Infrastructure/Registry Research Award, and Viola Caretti, MD, PhD, 2024 PERF-CNS Elterman Career Development Research Award. They were joined by PERF? Vice President, Don Shields, MD and PERF? President, Renée Shellhaas, MD, MS, FAES at the Annual CNS Awards Ceremony in November 2024. Not Pictured: John Rolston, MD, PhD, recipient of a PERF Infrastructure/Registry Research Award and Mauro Caffarelli, MD, recipient of the PERF-CNS Shields Career Development Research Award.

The Child Neurology Society in partnership with the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation (PERF?) presented the 2024 Shields Career Development Research Award to Mauro Caffarelli, MD (University of California, San Francisco), the 2024 Elterman Career Development Research Award to Viola Caretti, MD, PhD (UT Health, Houston) and the inaugural Bridge Grant Career Development Research Award to Andra L. Dingman, MD (Children's Hospital Colorado). Read more about the PERF-CNS 2025 Research Grant Opportunities for early-stage investigators at https://lnkd.in/ge4tUJ54

The PERF? Infrastructure/Registry Research Grant LOI SUBMISSION DEADLINE is next week, October 31, 5:00 pm Central. Be sure to include your biosketch with the LOI submission. Download LOI template https://lnkd.in/gDVehhuD

Submit your LOI for the PERF? Infrastructure/Registry Research Grant in any area of pediatric neurology. Established and early-stage investigators with appointments at an institution in the U.S. or Canada with an exciting and innovative project are welcome to submit an LOI for the 2025 Grant Cycle. Deadline is October 31, 2024, 5:00 pm Central Time. For more information visit the PERF? website at https://lnkd.in/g5zdhq2d

2025 Research Grant Cycle for the PERF??INFRASTRUCTURE/REGISTRY RESEARCH GRANT. We are accepting letters of intent (LOI) for this competitive grant mechanism. See our announcement on the PERF website at https://lnkd.in/gFX9z5Vk The LOI Submission Deadline is 5:00 pm Central Time on October 31, 2024. No extensions.

Congratulations to?Andra Dingman, MD, PhD, the first recipient of the?2024 PERF? -CNS Bridge Grant Award. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gwi_7ePg

Congratulations to the 2024 PERF?-CNS Career Development Research Grant Awardees, Viola Caretti, MD, PhD and Mauro Cafferelli, MD recipients of the Elterman Research Grant and Shields Research Grant, respectively. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gT7iUQmv

Congratulations to the recipient of the PERF/AES Research Training Fellowship for Clinicians, Clare M Timbie, MD, PhD at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research, "Amydala-thalamic reticular nucleus pathway in behavior and epilepsy" Mentors: Jeanne Paz, PhD and Daniel H. Lowenstein, MD