Dan Lavery

CDKL5 pilot grant awardees for 2025, to support basic and therapeutics research on CDKL5 and CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder. Provided by the Loulou Foundation in collaboration with the Orphan Disease Center at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Congratulations to the 2025 CDKL5 Program of Excellence Pilot Grant awardees! The Loulou Foundation is excited to provide these awards, in collaboration with the Orphan Disease Center at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, to support CDKL5 research. #CDKL5

CDKL5 pilot grant awardees for 2025, to support basic and therapeutics research on CDKL5 and CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder. Provided by the Loulou Foundation in collaboration with the Orphan Disease Center at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Congratulations to the 2025 CDKL5 Program of Excellence Pilot Grant awardees! The Loulou Foundation is excited to provide these awards, in collaboration with the Orphan Disease Center at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, to support CDKL5 research. #CDKL5

Francis Crick called it “impossible” in 1979. Now it’s real.
A 1 mm cube of mouse brain, 200k cells, 500M synapses, all mapped alongside neuronal activity.

This new MICrONS dataset maps brain structure and function in a way that we've never seen🧪
🔗 www.microns-explorer.org
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?

Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases. 🧪🦠💊

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

100%. Everyone in the US please call your representatives to let them know how devastating these cuts and firings are to rare disease families who already have so many challenges.

Phenotypic rescue via mTOR inhibition in neuron-specific Pten knockout mice reveals AKT and mTORC1-site specific changes - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Phenotypic rescue via mTOR inhibition in neuron-specific Pten knockout mice reveals AKT and mTORC1-site specific changes

Excited to share a new paper from our lab out this week in Molecular Psychiatry on an mTORopathy, PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great funding opportunity for a rare DEE/NDD, #CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder. Send in your LOI today!

Key point: Cenobamate is a promising and safe treatment for SCN8A-related DEEs, even during early childhood.
doi.org/10.1111/epi....

#epilepsy #ILAE #drugresistantepilepsy #geneticepilepsy #sodiumchannelopathy #DEE

Maybe if the NSF just stands really, really still, Trump will forget it exists

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

This administration's policy is effectively freezing healthcare and scientific research. Worried? I am.

www.science.org/content/arti...

A Win for the Vibecession Story Guess what? Popular economic narratives aren’t reliable

New evidence that it was the economic vibes, stupid open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Looking forward to getting into LAX early to catch up with the traditional #SYNGAP1 Conference by @curesyngap1.bsky.social and the #Dravet Roundtable by @curedravet.bsky.social both on December 5th just before #AES2024

Who else is coming? 💚

Please share-we are hosting an in person (travel support available!) for trainees who want to consider CHOP/Penn labs for postdoc. Apply to have a chance to check out our top notch science and get a trip to Philly!

As I've been seeing a lot of job postings here, I've set up a NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for a PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

PhD Alert! We have a fully funded (UK residents only, I'm afraid 😟) #NeuroSkyence PhD to move towards developing an at-home EEG system to monitor sleep oscillations for brain health monitoring and early dementia diagnosis. Please share with your network!

www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Please keep the date for HUMAN CEREBRAL CORTEX DEVELOPMENT III - Anatomical Society Meeting 14-16th July 2025, St John’s College, Oxford
Follow up to two meetings in 2010 and in 2018 issues of the Journal of Anatomy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... and onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697580...

So cool.

Quantitative EEG biomarkers for STXBP1-related disorders 🧬

Relative Delta Power is even higher in #STXBP1-DEE than in other developmental & epileptic encephalopathies - highest in the frontal areas 🧠

For more info 👉
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Epilepsy #Genetics

🧬 If you work on a neurological #RareDisease you should be following the news around Neurogene's gene therapy for #Rett syndrome.

They have very positive results in the clinic and also a really bad safety problem at a higher dose. Good chat with CEO in link: ir.neurogene.com/events/event...

Bruce Springsteen on Broadway, July 2021