Taking 'trial and error' out of epilepsy treatment

Neural architecture of an organoid. Neuronal cell bodies are red,
dendrites are green, axons are white, blue labels the nucleus of
astrocytes and senescent cells.
Image: Ben Rollo, PERSIST Associate Investigator

Enabling innovative research that cuts across multiple scientific and clinical disciplines in order to address urgent unmet health care needs is what the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) scheme was designed to do, and is doing exactly that with its recently announced funding for a project to help patients with epilepsy.

By combining their expertise in  human stem cell biology, clinical epilepsy and artificial intelligence scientists from the University of Queensland and Monash University will identify effective treatments for people with epilepsy more efficiently.