Team excels at the 2025 American Epilepsy Society annual meeting

Cook Children’s Neurosciences Research Center celebrates another standout year at the American Epilepsy Society’s (AES) annual meeting, taking home an award and presenting several posters at the December 2025 conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sakar Rijal, Ph.D., a recently graduated doctoral student from The University of Texas at Arlington received the 2025 Grass Foundation Young Investigator Award for his exceptional work on “Motor gamma oscillations as biomarkers of excitation/inhibition imbalance in children with epilepsy." Selected from a competitive pool of more than 1,300 applicants, this prestigious award honors only eight young investigators whose work is advancing basic and clinical neuroscience research in epilepsy.

M. Scott Perry, M.D., delivered a platform presentation entitled, “Zorevunersen continues to demonstrate potential as a disease-modifying therapy in long-term open-label extension studies of patients with Dravet syndrome,” sharing the latest data from ongoing clinical trials of Zorevunersen, the first potentially disease-modifying therapy for this rare epilepsy syndrome.

With more than 20 posters presented at the annual AES meeting, the neurosciences research team reinforced its position as a leader in epilepsy research.