Jaideep Kapur

Jaideep Kapur, MBBS, PhD, is the Eugene Meyer III Professor of Neuroscience & Neurology, and the Co-Director of the Brain Institute at the University of Virginia. Dr. Kapur is a clinician investigator whose laboratory studies the neurobiological mechanisms underlying status epilepticus and neuronal circuits active during seizures. He led ESETT, an NIH-supported, 60-site, randomized, blinded, comparative effectiveness study of three drugs for treating status epilepticus. Dr. Kapur served as the President of the American Epilepsy Society in 2010 and is the Chair of the Board of the International League Against Epilepsy-North America. He served on the editorial boards of the journals Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Experimental Neurology, Epilepsy Research, Epilepsy Currents, and multiple NIH review panels. He received the Epilepsy Research Recognition Award for Basic Science conferred by the American Epilepsy Society, the Ambassador For Epilepsy Award from the International League Against Epilepsy, and the Jacob Javits Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.