Epilepsia® Prize 2017 Clinical Science

Sarah Weckhuysen

Epilepsia is pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Epilepsia Clinical Research Prize is Sarah Weckhuysen for her article, "Involvement of GATOR complex genes in familial focal epilepsies and focal cortical dysplasia" Sarah Weckhuysen, Elise Marsan, Virginie Lambrecq, Cécile Marchal, Mélanie Morin-Brureau, Isabelle An-Gourfinkel, Michel Baulac, Martine Fohlen, Christine Kallay Zetchi, Margitta Seeck, Pierre de la Grange, Bart Dermaut, Alfred Meurs, Pierre Thomas, Francine Chassoux, Eric Leguern, Fabienne Picard and Stéphanie Baulac
Epilepsia. Version of Record online: 13 MAY 2016 | DOI: 10.1111/epi.13391
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Sarah Weckhuysen is a neurologist with strong research interests in genetics of epilepsy. She completed her neurology residency at the University of Leuven in Belgium, where she received her Neurology degree in 2008. Since then, she has combined clinical epilepsy care with academic epilepsy research. As a clinician, she worked in the Epilepsy Center Kempenhaeghe in the Netherlands, in the Reference Centre of Rare Epilepsies of the Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris, and since 2016, in the University Hospital of Antwerp in Belgium. In parallel, she obtained a Ph.D. on the topic of genetics of rare epilepsies while working in the Neurogenetics Group of Prof. P. De Jonghe at the VIB Center of Molecular Neurology in Antwerp, Belgium. She then moved to Paris for a postdoc stay at the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière in Paris, in the group of Stephanie Baulac, where the current study was done. In 2016 she returned to her research“home base” at the Neurogenetics Group in Antwerp, Belgium.

An interview with Sarah Weckhuysen, 2017 Epilepsia Prize Winner for Clinical Research
Astrid Nehlig, Michael Sperling and Gary Mathern
Version of Record online: 14 JUN 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/epi.13792
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Commentary: GATOR Complex-Associated Epilepsies
Johannes R. Lemke
Version of Record online: 14 JUN 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/epi.13789
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