ERUK is now @EpilepsyInst Thank you to ERUK is now @EpilepsyInst, Prof Schorge and everyone else today for making this a fun discussion about the future of epilepsy research & our progress w/ Cronutt

A huge thank you to all the clinicians & scientists who contributed such fantastic content to make this ERUK is now @EpilepsyInst #EpilepsyWeek so special. Thanks also to our collaborators @andypeaps Young Epilepsy gwpharmaceuticals & unq. And to Gill and Gordon for sharing such a personal story.

We hope there was something in there for everyone. Who isn’t going to bed thinking of Cronutt ?! Thanks to everyone who got involved.

Office wall space starting to fill up with ⁦Cronutt⁩ media coverage | thanks ⁦The New York Times⁩ & ⁦UC San Francisco⁩ ⁦UCSF Neurosurgery⁩

. . . and now reaching nearly 11 months of seizure freedom for Cronutt magazine.ucsf.edu/cellular-trans…

Cellular Transplant Therapy Pioneered by UCSF Reverses Sea Lion’s Epilepsy Cronutt magazine.ucsf.edu/cellular-trans…

Yay Cronutt 🦭!!!! “On Oct 6th 2020, a group of veterinarians, neurosurgeons and scientists gathered to xenotransplant porcine #MGE cells into an epileptic sea lion named Cronutt. Today, one year later Cronutt lives a "seizure free, no side effects" life”

Chris Dulla Cronutt Thanks Chris Dulla and @MMeskis. As you both know this has been a research direction we have pursued tirelessly for nearly two decades | kudos go out to robert hunt 🔥 @HowardNeuroLab Mariana Casalia Rosi Paterno @elisacalcagnatto as well as many others

If you haven't heard Cronutt's story already, go check it out. This brings me such joy and optimism for our future.

Christin Godale, PhD American Epilepsy Society Cronutt Also please keep in mind Cronutt is a rescued wildlife animal with naturally occurring epilepsy. . . and not an experimental model in a laboratory environment

⁦Holiday lunch for the ⁦BarabanLab⁩ to celebrate 2021 | MGE transplant therapy for ⁦Cronutt⁩, publications on #CNTNAP2 mice, #STXBP1 zebrafish, ‘superhub’ cells, The Epilepsy Zebrafish Project & a new group of trainees

Today’s #AdventChampions are the BarabanLab and their friend Cronutt the sea lion, who is now over one-year seizure-free thanks to epilepsy surgery! We were delighted to hear that Crontt has also recently acquired a new female "friend" called Missy💘 youtu.be/rRReDsd5YL4

Baby #Beluga whale #Shila nursing, #CoralReef, #Discus, #SeaLion Cronutt 😀

Now almost 16 months after a life-saving #MGE transplant procedure Cronutt is looking forward to a happy & healthy 2022. More good news to follow this month . . . stay tuned

Go Cronutt!!

Back to the desk today and isn’t Cronutt the perfect reminder of the possibilities… Happy New Year!

One more brief Cronutt update for this week. More to follow in February. UCSF Health UCSF Neurosurgery omny.fm/shows/kcbsam-o…

Go little rockstar! Cronutt Cronutt the sea lion is cured of epilepsy after breakthrough treatment mol.im/a/10394999 via Mail Online

In Oct. 2020, Cronutt, a sea lion, received a transplant of pig brain cells to treat his epilepsy. More than a year later, he is seizure-free. In a piece for National Geographic, KSJ Project fellow Emily Mullin asks: Could this therapy work for humans? on.natgeo.com/3zLfVc9

Cronutt Cronutt recently passed his 16-month post #MGE xenotransplant anniversary. Living his best sea lion life!