Ethan's appointment to Full Professor was approved by the Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, effective 2026. Congrats, Ethan!

Led by Zach Rosenthal, our Research Grant “Neuromodulation for Dravet Syndrome: Preclinical Validation of a Novel Therapeutic Mechanism ” has been approved for funding by Dravet Syndrome Foundation (DSF). This Grant will support Zach's work studying basic mechanisms...

Mia Sherer recently attended the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. She presented a poster entitled "A Novel Mouse Model of SCN3A-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder" that was very well attended and generated a lot of interest. She also delivered a short...

Sophie Hill - one of two recipients of the prestigious 2025 Brody Fellowship for Postdoctoral Fellows from the Philadelphia Foundation was featured in a story on WHYY! A link to the radio clip is contained in the story....

Jerome Clatot has been appointed Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, here at CHOP. Jerome will remain a member of the lab and collaborate while continuing to develop his own research program. Congratulations to Jerome!

Mia Sherer was accepted to and is currently attending the prestigious Paris NeuroCourse "Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience" previously attended by Sophie L.

Sophie Liebergall's  abstract entitled "Neocortical parvalbumin-expressing interneurons display progressive decreases in axonal action potential fidelity during sustained high-frequency firing" has been selected for a talk at the prestigioius Gordon Research Seminar...

Junior Penn undergraduate Yerahm Hong has been awarded a CURF Summer Research Funding grant in the amount of $5,000 from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF). She will work on her project entitled “Investigating...

Senior Penn undergraduate Clara Wang successfully defended her undergraduate thesis "Dysregulation of the inhibitory-serotoninergic pathway modulates sociability in an animal model of Dravet Syndrome" on Friday, April 25. Congratulations to Clara! Clara will be...

Sophie Hill's paper with Sophie Liebergall and Eric Wengert and collaborator Brian Theyel at Brown University entitled "Interneurons exhibit attenuated ectopic action potential firing in a severe neurodevelopmental disorder" has been accepted for publication...