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Research in Motion: Ian Wenker, PhD

February 10, 2026 by daf4a@virginia.edu

A big focus of [our] lab is trying to understand how the brain contributes to what’s called sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. People with epilepsy—unfortunately some fraction of them—will experience this where they’re found deceased and we don’t understand yet why.  — Ian Wenker, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

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