Neurology & Epilepsy Research

Major areas of our division's scientific focus are listed below. Learn more on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago page for Pediatric Neurology Research.

Search our listing of current clinical trials and review our recent publications for more information.

• Precision medicine in epilepsy targeting infant onset epilepsies; specifically, the genetic channelopathies investigators include:
  • Anne Berg, PhD (natural history and outcomes of early life epilepsies)
  • Linda Laux, MD (Dravet syndrome; SCN1A)
  • John Millichap, MD (infantile spasms, KCNQ2)
  • Tracey Gertler, MD, PhD (KCNT1 potassium channel dysfunction in infant epileptic encephalopathies)
• Acute brain injury:
  • Andrea Pardo, MD (white matter injury in neonates)
  • Jon Kurz, MD, PhD (the role of hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels in depression after acute brain injury)
• Clinical trials in children with neuromuscular disorders, including spinal muscular atrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and myotubular myopathy:
  • Nancy Kuntz, MD
  • Vamshi Rao, MD
• The role of Human Herpesvirus 6 in febrile status epilepticus:
  • Leon Epstein, MD