Canadian Epilepsy Research Initiative (CERI) was organized in 2001 by a group of basic scientists and clinicians across Canada, as a research section of the Canadian League against Epilepsy (CLAE).

The purpose of CERI is to organize and connect epilepsy researchers across Canada into an organization which can promote epilepsy research to the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, lay funding organizations, industry, and to the general public in order to improve diagnostic, treatment and prevention of epilepsy.

The network comprises over 170 members of all disciplines involved in epilepsy research: