Description: When Susan Axelrod and several other mothers started Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE), it was more than just motherly love that fueled their mission, but an intense determination to find a cure for epilepsy. Like many mothers of children with epilepsy, Axelrod has watched her daughter, from the time she was 7 months of age, suffer countless seizures a day. Now 24 years old, Axelrod’s daughter, Lauren, has been on every conceivable epilepsy treatment ranging from Phenobarbital to invasive neurosurgery. Although within the past few years they have been able to control her seizures with a mixture of anti-epileptic medications, the damage to her brain has been done.