The Epilepsy Association awards research grants of $35000 over one year, plus conference expenses to graduates proceeding to higher studies in epilepsy-specific fields of research. Recipients for 2004, announced in Auckland are:

sDr Sandra Petty, University of Melbourne, for her research entitled The Effect of Anticonvulsant Medication on Bone Mineral Density and Osteoporosis Risk - A Twin and Sister Study

sDr Patrick Chan, University of Melbourne, for his research on Significance of Extalesional abnormalities in Hippocampal Sclerosis and Malformations of Cortical Development.

Travel Bursaries were awarded for poster or paper presentations at the Epilepsy Society of Australia’s Annual Scientific Meeting Auckland Nov.2003:

sDr Stephanie Mekes-Ferber, Department of Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital for EEG dipole source location of interictal spikes acquired during routine clinical Video-EEG monitoring

sMs Jennie Linto, Department of Neurology, Royal Perth Hospital for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Use in Epilepsy

sMiss Susan Senn, University of Melbourne, for Pharmacogenomics: Valporate Associated Body Weight Changes in Nine Inbred Strains of Mice

sMs Charlott Wallengren, University of Melbourne, for Intracerebroventricular infusions of Carbamazepine aggravate absence seizures in the GAERS model

sDr Anita Vinton, Monash Medical Centre, for Convulsive non-epileptic seizures have a characteristic pattern on time-frequency mapping.

Scholarship winner, Dr Petty was also invited to make a Platform Presentation of her research at American Epilepsy Society Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, December 2003. For this presentation she was awarded an international research travel bursary by the Epilepsy Association. n

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