 My name is Dr. Hannah Leason and I'm honored to be a recipient of the 2021 Brain Foundation Award. One of the most common causes of drug-resistant epilepsy is cortical dysplasia, where the outer layers of the brain are malformed during development. I will be using stem cells from patients with cortical dysplasia to generate 3D brain models to greater understand the causes of cortical dysplasia, as well as to test approved therapeutics to find treatments for patients.