Howard Florey Institute

Group website: http://www.florey.edu.au/research/scientific-laboratories/ion-channels-and-human-disease/

The Ion Channels and Human Disease group, led by Dr Steven Petrou, has a keen interest in researching the fundamental basis of epilepsy.

This includes:

• Identifying the genes involved in inherited forms of the disease and studying how they alter brain function to cause epilepsy or “Epileptogenesis”
• Developmental biology and epilepsy
• The genomic response of the brain in mouse models of human familial epilepsy
• Identification of therapeutics opportunities to treat epilepsy.

For full details, visit the group website.