Webinar – Working towards SCN2A treatment
Speakers: Prof. Steven Petrou, Director of the Florey and RogCon, Chief Scientific Officer, and Dr. Kiran Reddy, CEO of Praxis Precision Medicines. At the 2018 American Epilepsy Society meeting, Prof…
Demystifying Genetic Testing
Genetic testing is complex. To decipher some of the terminolgy and help explain the process we talked to Dr Emma Palmer, Clinical Geneticist.
Sleep in Children with Developmental Disabilities
Children with developmental disabilities can have touble with sleep. Assoc Prof Margot Davey discusses what can be done to improve sleep in these children.
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE)
CURE Epilepsy has raised more than $60 million to fund epilepsy research. We talk with Dr Laura Lubbers about the work CURE Epilepsy is doing.
Achieve More by Working Together
Working collaboratively has been one of the hallmarks of Prof Daniel Lowenstein’s career and has led to breakthrough research.
Developing Treatments for SCN2A
We talk with Dr Kiran Reddy about the plans for the RC-222 treatment program with the goal of developing a treatment for SCN2A gain-of-function epilepsies.
Developing treatments as a parent
When Alex Nemiroff's son was born, he was determined to work towards finding treatments for SCN2A, and is now CEO of RogCon with a treatment in development.
Natural History Study for SCN2A
Natural History Studies (NHS) are important in planning trials of treatment. We talk with Dr Katherine Howell, principal investigator of the SCN2A NHS.
An Overview of SCN2A
Prof Ingrid Scheffer has published many key papers in SCN2A and genetic epilepsies and discusses the progress that has been made in understanding SCN2A.
Neurons from mice missing SCN2A (right) have signal-receiving branches that are less mature than those in controls (left).
New research on loss-of-function SCN2A mutations
The following work from Assistant Prof. Kevin Benders lab was presented on the 20th of October in Chicago, at Neuroscience 2019 held by Society for Neuroscience (SFN). A bit about…
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