New Cain Labs website promotes groundbreaking epilepsy research

April 21, 2015

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Texas Children’s has launched a new website dedicated to innovative epilepsy research conducted at the Cain Foundation Laboratories and other test centers around the world.

The Cain Labs located in the Jan and Dan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s is named after Houston philanthropists Gordon and Mary Cain, who established a foundation to fund pediatric epilepsy research programs at Texas Children’s and Baylor College of Medicine.

42215Cainlabinside640Under the leadership of Dr. John Swann, a professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at Baylor and a former president of the American Epilepsy Society, researchers in the Cain Labs have made remarkable advances in our understanding of the molecular causes that underlie persistent seizures and cognitive and behavioral disabilities in children with intractable epilepsy.

You can visit the Cain Labs website at cainlabs.texaschildrens.org. (The website is best viewed with Chrome, IE8/9 or other modern browsers.)

“This newly designed website showcases our world-class researchers and their latest life-changing discoveries in epilepsy that occur every day inside the Cain labs,” said Texas Children’s Digital Marketing specialist Dr. Raji Natarajan, who designed the website and is a scientific research writer for the Cain Labs and NRI websites.

The epilepsy research website also includes a repository of helpful information about epilepsy treatment programs for patients and their families, including a link to Texas Children’s Level IV Epilepsy Center.