As a mother of a child with epilepsy, Susan Axelrod founded CURE in 1998 with a group of other parents who were frustrated that they could not protect their children from seizures or from the side effects of medications. Since 1998, CURE has raised more than $78 million to fund epilepsy research.

Find out what Axelrod gained by persevering through hardship:

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