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To celebrate Brain Awareness Week, we are delighted to be teaming up with our colleagues in FutureNeuro for the latest iteration of our Epilepsy Research Matters event!
FutureNeuro is Research Ireland’s Centre for Translational Brain Science, with many of their world-leading researchers and research projects investigating epilepsy. One of Epilepsy Ireland’s key strategic aims is to work collaboratively to improve the care of people with epilepsy and knowledge of the condition and the key element of this aim is investing directly in epilepsy research, as well as promoting the importance of research within the epilepsy community. Since 2009, we have invested over €1.5 million in epilepsy research projects – many of which have been carried out by researchers working in FutureNeuro.
This in-person event taking place in the Royal College of Surgeons during Brain Awareness Week, and hosted by our patron and RTÉ Broadcaster, Rick O’Shea, will provide attendees with an insight into some of the incredible epilepsy research which is taking place right here in Ireland. The full agenda is included below which contains an array of expert speakers and topics which will be of interest to the entire epilepsy community.
WHEN?
Brain Awareness Week, Wednesday March 12th, 5:30pm – 8:30pm. Tea, Coffee and light refreshments will be served from 5:30pm, with the first speaker set to begin from 6:00pm sharp.
WHERE?
Albert Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons, 123 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 (D02 YN77).
AGENDA
Agenda is as follows - note that feature presentations are inclusive of 5 minutes for questions and answers. Note that agenda could be subject to timing changes.
- 6:00pm – Director of FutureNeuro, Professor David Henshall will welcome attendees.
- 6:05pm – Feature Presentation – Professor Norman Delanty: “New Ways of Monitoring and Detecting Seizures”
- 6:25pm – Feature Presentation – Dr. Aisling Walsh & Dr. Jade Parnell: “The EpiKNOW project: Health information resources for women with epilepsy from preconception to postpartum.”
- 6: 45 pm – Flash Presentation – Jordan Higgins: “Understanding Comorbidities: Marbles, Mazes and Models”
- 6:50pm – Feature Presentation – Dr. Julian Larkin: “Working with surgeons and depth electrodes to better profile epilepsy”
- 7:10pm – Flash Presentation – Dr. Ifeolutembi Fashina: “Understanding the genetic causes of rare epilepsies”
- 7:15pm – COMFORT BREAK
- 7:25pm – Feature Presentation – Dr. Radharani Benvenutti: “How are the clocks ticking in early stages of Dravet syndrome development”
- 7:45pm – Flash Presentation – Dr. Albert Kelly: “Developing a Portable Device for Instant Measurement of Anti-seizure Medications”
- 7.50pm – Flash Presentation - Meghma Mitra: "Tackling Epilepsy after Traumatic Brain Injury".
- 7:55pm – Feature Presentation - Professor Mark Cunningham: “Hacking the brain’s accelerator: novel therapies for epilepsy”
- 8:15pm – Thank you and Close by Epilepsy Ireland CEO Peter Murphy