GALE LECTURE: Dr. Manisha Patel
“Developing Metabolism-Based Therapies for Epilepsy and Its Comorbidities”
8th Annual Karen Gale Memorial Lectureship for Outstanding Women in Neuroscience
About Dr. Patel: Dr. Manisha Patel is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology at Purdue University, and postdoctoral training in Neuroscience at Duke University. The primary theme of her laboratory & research is to understand the redox and metabolic basis of epilepsy and develop metabolism-based therapies for its treatment. Her research efforts have provided compelling evidence for the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in acquired epilepsy and recently in a zebrafish model of Dravet Syndrome. Dr. Patel’s accomplishments include having authored 120 scientific publications; having been the recipient of numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health and foundations and serving on editorial boards of several journals.
Dr. Patel is the past President of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) and has served AES as a member of the Board of Directors, chair of the Research and Training Council, Scientific Program Chair and Basic Science Committee and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Taskforce. In recognition of her innovation in research, mentorship and service, she received the Javits Neuroscience award from NINDS, CU Anschutz Distinguished Research Award, AES’s Distinguished Service Award, the CURE Innovator Award, and the CU Anschutz Shell Prize for Research and Graduate Education. She co-chaired the Oxygen Radicals Gordon Research Conference and
served on scientific advisory boards of CURE and Epilepsy Foundation & Innovation Institute. She is devoted to training and diversifying the next generation of translational neuroscientists.
The lecture will take place from 2:00-3:30, with a reception to follow.