At the recommendation of the Board of Directors and with full support of Dawn's family, The Dawn Brejcha Foundation partnered with the Brain Aneurysm Foundation to establish The Dawn Brejcha Chair of Research. This chair will provide an annual grant of $10,000 to be awarded to a deserving project in the area of brain aneurysm research at The Brain Aneurysm Foundation Research Grant Symposium.
The 2010 Dawn Brejcha Chair of research was awarded on September 22, 2010 in Orlando, FL. The grant went to support the work of:
Steven Chang, M.D., Ph.D. - Professor in Neurosciences, Stanford Medicine - "Identification of Genetic Indicators to Predict Cerebral Vasospasm Following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage" - Stanford University - Stanford, CA
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