Virginia Tech, United States
Dr. Susan Campbell is an Assistant Professor in the School of Animal Sciences and a core faculty in the School of Neuroscience at Virginia Tech. Her research involves identifying novel mechanisms by which altered synaptic communication leads to the development of epilepsy in the adult and pediatric brain. She is interested in identifying unconventional targets that may uncover novel therapeutic strategies for patients with epilepsy. In doing so, her laboratory studies the role of the gut microbiota in modulating seizure susceptibility and examines the interaction between anti-epileptic drugs and the gut microbiome in the treatment of epilepsy. Her work on pediatric epilepsy involves examining divergent mechanisms by which glioma cells induce seizures in the adult and pediatric brain in order to develop more targeted therapies for pediatric tumor-associated epilepsy.