Early-Career Testimonials

Meet some of the amazing early-career researchers supported by EpiCARE! These young professionals were selected to present their abstracts at top epilepsy conferences across Europe. Here, they share what the experience meant to them, and how EpiCARE helped make it happen.

International Epilepsy Congress, Lisbon (Portugal) - August 30 - September 3 (2025)

Lisa Evju (Norway), Anna Scarabello (Italy), Jinping Zhou (Freiburg) and Katrine Marie Johannesen (Denmark) were selected as early-career professionals to receive reimbursement to present their abstracts at the 36th International Epilepsy Congress

Lisa Evju: “Awake craniotomy in pediatric epilepsy patients – feasibility and safety”
Anna Scarabello: “Neurophysiological markers and predictors of effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in people with drug resistant epilepsy.”
Jinping Zhou: “Decreased interictal heart rate variability in children and adolescents aged 6-14 years with epilepsy.”
Katrine Marie Johannesen: “4-phenylbutyrate use and efficacy in SLC6A1-related neurodevelopmental disorders”

Listen to their experiences!

Lisa Evju. Lisbon (Portugal), August - September 2025.

Anna Scarabello. Lisbon (Portugal), August - September 2025.

Jinping Zhou. Lisbon (Portugal), August - September 2025.

Katrine Marie Johannesen. Lisbon (Portugal), August - September 2025.

EPNS, Munich (Germany) - July 8th - 12th (2025)

Beate Jost (from KU, Leuven) and Valentina Rizzo (from Danish Epilepsy Centre, Filadelfia) were selected as early-career professionals to receive reimbursement to present their abstracts at EPNS in Munich, Germany (8-12^th July 2025).

Beate Jost: “Why childhood absence epilepsy is not always a benign epilepsy: a multicentric retrospective study in Flanders.”
Valentina Rizzo: “Acute metabolic encephalopathy with refractory status epilepticus in Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency.”

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Beate Jost. Munich (Germany), 9th July 2025.

Valentina Rizzo. Munich (Germany), 9th July 2025.

European Epilepsy Congress, Geneva - July 9th-13th (2022)

Congratulation Giulia Galati, Alberto Cossu and Samuel Hakansson for their great work.

European Paediatric Neurology Society , Glasgow, 28th April - 2nd May (2022)

Congratulation to Erica Cognolato, and Evelina Carapancea.