Meet Shruthi Iyer, a neuroscience graduate student at Creighton who’s using research to change lives. 🔬🧬 Working alongside Kristina Simeone, PhD, Shruthi is studying how abnormalities in breathing and heart function can lead to Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)—a condition that impacts patients and families around the world. Her work focuses on finding biomarkers that could give doctors a chance to intervene sooner and save lives. “For me, meeting families and caregivers of SUDEP patients has been the most rewarding part of my research,” Shruthi says. “It reminds me that every discovery—big or small—has the potential to make a real impact.” And she’s already making an impact. Her research has earned national recognition 🏅 from the epilepsy research community—and it’s helped shape her future career plans: becoming a translational research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry 💊 to continue finding solutions that serve patients. That’s the power of research. That...