Dr. Wu Chen wins the 2017 American Epilepsy Society's Young Investigator Award

Dr. Wu Chen, postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Dr. Mingshan Xue, principal investigator at the Gordon and Mary Cain Labs for pediatric epilepsy research and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, has won the 2017 American Epilepsy Society's Young Investigator Award.  

This award recognizes twenty young investigators conducting basic, translational, or clinical epilepsy research.  The abstract of his research project titled, “Stxbp1 haploinsufficient mice recapitulate many features of STXBP1 encephalopathy” was selected from over 1,300 submissions for this honor. The American Epilepsy Society is the largest professional body of clinicians and researchers involved in epilepsy.

- Rajalaxmi Natarajan, PhD, 09/08/2017