FY 2025
Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards
Taesun Yoo, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
The role of astrocytes in TSC2-induced epilepsy using cortical organoids
Research Grant Award
Aynara Wulsin, MD PhD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Somatic mosaicism and mTOR hyperactivation as mechanisms of epileptogenesis
Alexander Cohen, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Predicting neurologic outcomes in TSC from tuber location and connectivity
Biosample Seed Grant Awardees
Kimberly Raab-Graham, PhD
Wake Forest University
Utilizing patient data to facilitate discoveries in preclinical models of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Joseph Bateman, BSc, PhD
King’s College London
Mis-regulation of RNA splicing as a major potential driver of pathology in SEGAs
Peter Scheiffele, PhD
University of Base
Molecular analysis of PBMC and brain samples from TSC patients
FY 2024
Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards
Weibo Niu, PhD
Emory University
Understanding the pathological roles of microglia in TSC
Flaviane Silva, PhD
University of Massachusetts
Regulation of kidney cystogenesis by a non-canonical Rag-GTPase mechanism
Research Grant Award
Jeffrey Calhoun, PhD
Northwestern University
Scalable assays to resolve variants of uncertain significance in TSC2
Biosample Seed Grant Awardees
Andrew John Liu, MD, MS
Duke University
Establishing novel plasma biomarkers through an unbiased approach to prognosticate TAND
David Feliciano, PhD
Clemson University
A Subependymal Giant Astrocytoma Analysis
Philip Kitchen, PhD
Aston University
Dysregulation of water channel proteins (aquaporins) in tuberous sclerosis complex