In a bumper year, six project grants, one equipment grant and one Epilepsy Research Foundation Fellowship have been awarded, totalling £400,615. The Foundation is proud to support the world-class researchers who have won these grants through very stiff competition.

Two projects are investigating aspects of paediatric epilepsy

One project and one fellowship are studying quality of life issues in people with epilepsy

Four other grants will investigate memory decline in epilepsy; understanding how epilepsy develops; building a DNA database; whether seizures could be forecast?

Leigh Slocombe, Executive Director of Epilepsy Research UK says, "We are very pleased to have been able to fund eight projects that will investigate many different aspects of epilepsy from potential causes to how it affects a person's life. Epilepsy is an incredibly complex condition that affects over 450,000 people in the UK alone. We hope that these projects will make a real difference to these people's lives."

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