Mingshan Xue, PhD, assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and investigator at the Texas Children’s Hospital’s Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories/Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, has been awarded the 2016 CURE Epilepsy Felix Henry Memorial Award.
Xue’s research is focused on the development of cortical circuits and how any malfunction of these circuits contributes to epileptic encephalopathies. This award is awarded in the honor of Felix Henry who started having seizures as a 3-month-old infant and tragically succumbed to epilepsy as a 7-month-old baby in March 2016. His parents, Jen Scott and Pierre-Gilles Henry, instituted a $250,000 grant to support transformational scientific research programs.
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) is a leading non-governmental agency fully committed to leading and supporting research in epilepsy. It was founded by a group of parents in 1998, and since its inception, has raised more than $40 million to support epilepsy research initiatives.
Click here to learn more about Xue’s research program and his motivations for pursuing this area of investigation.