Oct. 19 – Renzo Guerrini, professor of childhood neuropsychiatry at the University of Florence, has been awarded the Epilepsy Research Award for Clinical Science Research by the American Epilepsy Society, which selects each year the researcher who has contributed the most on epilepsy studies. Guerrini is director of the Specialization School for Childhood Neuropsychiatry in the University of Florence, he is also director of the Operative Unit for Pediatric Neurology and of the Neuroscience department of the Meyer University Hospital, and from
2009 to 2011 he was scientific director of the Pisa Stella Maris Institute for Recovery and Cure. He is author of over 300 publications on national and international journals, he is member of various scientific committees, as well as of the Editorial Board of a series of journals. Guerrini taught at the University College London and in Pisa, focusing his research on pediatric epilepsy and the genetic causes behind the alterations in the development of the cerebral cortex. The award Guerrini is about to receive is the most prestigious international prize for research in the epilepsy field. He will receive it in San Diego on December 1, during the Annual American Epilepsy Society Congress.
