The American Epilepsy Society (AES) meeting is the largest epilepsy meeting of the year, and because it takes place every month of December it also serves as an annual review on the understanding and treatment of epilepsies. These are my main insights from the American Epilepsy Society 2024 meeting.
For the past ten years the Loulou Foundation hosts an annual meeting where scientists and drug developers working on CDKL5 deficiency, together with representatives from patient organizations, meet to discuss the latest advances.
Here are the main news and take-home messages from the 2024 CDKL5 Forum that took place in October 28-29 in Boston
La décima edición del Foro CDKL5 tuvo lugar en Boston, los días 28 y 29 de octubre de 2024. El Foro es una reunión anual que organiza la Fundación Loulou y en la que científicos y miembros de la industria farmacéutica se reúnen con representantes de la comunidad de pacientes para repasar los últimos avances en el campo.
Este es un repaso para los grupos de pacientes de las principales novedades del Foro CDKL5 2024.
Patients with Dravet syndrome caused by missense mutations in SCN1A are candidates for the clinical trials with ASOs and gene therapies to increase SCN1A expression, and will be candidate for this therapies after approval.
The American Epilepsy Society (AES) meeting is the largest epilepsy meeting of the year, and because it takes place every month of December it also serves as an annual review on the understanding and treatment of epilepsies. These are my top 5 insights from the American Epilepsy Society 2021 meeting.
For the past seven years the Loulou Foundation hosts an annual meeting where scientists and drug developers working on CDKL5 deficiency, together with representatives from patient organizations, meet to discuss the latest advances.
Here are the main news and take-home messages from the 2021 CDKL5 Forum that took place in November 1-2 2021.
CDKL5 deficiency is biologically reversible, bringing much hope and creating a sense of urgency for the development of restorative treatments for CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD). These are the conclusions of a publication from Zhaoland (Joe) Zhou’s lab from the University of Pennsylvania. The study was just published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and it is poised to become a landmark study in the field.
Last weekend, the CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) community gathered in front of their computers for a virtual annual meeting organized by the International CDKL5 Alliance. For the 2021 Alliance meeting, the organizing team commission a series of pre-recorded videos to a large range of speakers and published the videos with subtitles so that all CDD families from all around the world could watch them at the same time. You can also access the videos at the CDKL5 Alliance website. Here is a personal summary of the 2021 CDKL5 Alliance meeting.
