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, Israel, and her medical degree from the University of Miami. She has held faculty appointments at the University of Texas at Houston and its M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and at USC, before joining UCI in 1995. In 2002, she founded the UCI Epilepsy Research Center, and she is currently the scientific director of the UCI Comprehensive Epilepsy Program.

In 2005, Baram received the Epilepsy Research Recognition Award from the American Epilepsy Society, the nation's top award for research on this brain disorder.

"This Javits Award affirms the importance of our research on the neurobiology of epilepsy in children" Baram said. "This prestigious award highlights the truly outstanding quality of neuroscience epilepsy research at UCI."

Authorized by the United States Congress in 1983, the award honors the late U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), who was a strong advocate for research on a variety of neurological disorders. Senator Javits suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the disabling neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Baram is one of six investigators to receive the Javits Award this year. As part of the award, Baram will receive an additional three years' funding for a current four-year NINDS research grant.

Previous UCI Javits Award recipients are: Edward Jones (1984), Larry Overman (1985 and '92), Dr. Ricardo Miledi (1989), Charles Ribak (1990), John Wasmuth (1991), Arthur Lander (1998), Ivan Soltesz (2005) and Michael Cahalan (2005).

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Contact: Tom Vasich
tmvasich@uci.edu
949-824-6455
University of California - Irvine
20-Jun-2006

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