NEUROSURGERY EVENTS
UC Irvine - Binder to Receive
Epilepsy Foundation Award
After reviewing some impressive and highly competitive proposals, the Epilepsy Foundation of America¹ has announced Dr. Devin K. Binder as an award recipient of the Epilepsy Foundation Research Grant Program. The two-year grant will begin January 1, 2009. Dr. Binder is Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Director of UCI's Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery Service, and Surgical Director for the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program². Congratulations to Dr. Binder and the Epilepsy Research Laboratory³ on their new grant, which aims to create novel optical diagnostic tools for epilepsy.
¹ The Epilepsy Foundation of America is the national voluntary agency solely dedicated to the welfare of the more than 3 million people with epilepsy in the U.S. and their families. Their website is at http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/research/
² The UCI Comprehensive Epilepsy Program has been designated by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) as a level 4 comprehensive epilepsy center, the highest ranking given. You can read more at http://www.healthcare.uci.edu/epilepsy/index.asp.
³ The website for the Epilepsy Research Lab can be found http://neurosurgery.uci.edu/epilepsyresearchlab/.
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