Project: Health information and education resources for women with epilepsy from preconception to postpartum
Who? Dr Aisling Walsh, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, RCSI
Years funded: 2023-2025
Project: Predicting and monitoring outcomes in Autoimmune Encephalitis (POTA)
Who? Prof Norman Delanty, Consultant Neurologist and Director, Epilepsy Service, Beaumont Hospital & Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, RCSI.
Years funded: 2022-2025
Project: Long non-coding RNAs: regulators of epileptogenesis and potential targets for therapy
Who? Prof Gary Brennan, School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin
Years funded: 2022-2025
Project: miR-CDD: Molecular mechanisms, therapeutic targets and biomarkers for CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder (CDD)
Who? Erva Ghani, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Academic Supervisor: Dr. Omar Mamad. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
Years funded: 2022-2026
Project: Circadian biomarkers in pre-clinical and clinical Dravet Syndrome
Who? Radharani Benvenutti, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Academic Supervisor: Dr Cristina Ruedell Reschke, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
Years funded: 2022-2024
Project: EPIVIEWS: Exploring Patient Impact & Value in Epilepsy Wearables for Seizure Monitoring
Who? John David Damalerio, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Academic Supervisor: Prof Colin Doherty, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
Years funded: 2022-2024
Who? James Britton, Department of Physiology NUI Galway (Academic Supervisor: Dr Leo Quinlan, Department of Physiology, NUI Galway)
Years funded: 2021-2022
Project: Epilepsy Mortality in Ireland
Who? Dr Yvonne Langan; St James’s Hospital/ Trinity College in collaboration with HRB
Years funded: 2020+ (Ongoing)
Who? Prof Norman Delanty; Beaumont Hospital/ RCSI
Years funded: 2020-2021
Project: The microbiome as an environmental trigger for autoimmune epilepsy
Who? Dr. Gianpiero Cavalleri; RCSI;
Years funded: 2018 – 2021
Who? Dr Mary Fitzsimons; RCSI
Years funded: 2018 – 2020
Project: MicroRNAs in the mechanism of ketogenic diet therapies and as biomarkers in paediatric epilepsy
Who? Prof David Henshall; RCSI;
Years funded: 2016 – 2019
Project: Can Dogs Predict Epileptic Seizures
Who? Dr. Neil Powell; Queens University Belfast
Years funded: 2017
Project: Epilepsy Deaths Register for Ireland
Who? UCC/ Sheffield University;
Years funded: 2015+ (Ongoing)
Who? Sinead Heavin; RCSI
Years funded: 2014 – 2016
Who? Dr Naomi Elliott; Trinity College Dublin;
Years funded: 2014 – 2016
Who? Prof Agnes Higgins; Trinity College Dublin
Years funded: 2013 – 2016
Who? Dr Veronica Lambert; Dublin City University
Years funded: 2013- 2016
Who? Prof David Henshall; RCSI
Years funded: 2012 -2013
Project: A pharmacogenomic study of chronic refractory epilepsy
Who? Dr Gianpiero Cavalleri; RCSI
Years funded: 2010 – 2012
Project: Baroreflex sensitivity in individuals with epilepsy: Does it play a role in SUDEP?
Who? Dr Yvonne Langan; St James’s Hospital
Years funded: 2010 – 2012
Project: Heritability of cognitive endophenotypes in temporal lobe epilepsy
Who? Dr Teresa Burke; University College Dublin
Years funded: 2010 – 2011
Project: The Prevalence of Epilepsy in Ireland Study
Who? Dr Christine Linehan; University College Dublin;
Years funded: 2009