6th ERN-RND Winter School ‘Challenges of Treating Rare Neurological Diseases’, 12. – 14. March 2025
Winter School 2025
The European Pediatric Neurology Society (EPNS) and the European Reference Network for Rare Neurological Diseases (ERN-RND) are organizing a Winter School on Challenges of Treating Rare Neurological Diseases.
The school will take place virtually, from 12th to 14th March 2025.
To register click here.
Programme
| 12 March 2025 | Disease Modifying Therapies |
| Chair | — |
| Time (CET) | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:45 | Treatment of Metachromatic Leukodystrophies | Francesca Fumagalli IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy |
| 9:45-10:30 | Treatment of Aromatic l-amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC) Deficiency | Thomas Opladen University Children’s Hospital Heidelberg, Germany |
| 10:30-11:15 | Leriglitazone Trial in Adrenoleukodystrophy | Fanny Mochel, Caroline Sevin La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and Kremlin-Bicêtre University Hospital, Paris, France |
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Disease-modifying Treatment Approaches/Trials in Huntington’s Disease (HD) | Bernhard Landwehrmeyer University Hospital Ulm, Germany |
| 12:15-13:00 | Treatment of Nano-rare Neurological Diseases | Marlen Laufer Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands |
| 13:00-13:30 | Q&A, Discussion |
| 13 March 2025 | Movement Disorders |
| Chair | — |
| Time (CET) | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:30 | Introduction – Systematicsof Movement Disorders Symptoms | Bart van de Warrenburg Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| 9:30-10:15 | Treatment of Spasticity | Annemieke Buizer Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands |
| 10:15-11:00 | Treatment of Dystonia | tba |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Treatment of Ataxia – Genetics Based | Willeke van Roon-Mom Leiden University, The Netherlands |
| 12:00-12:45 | Treatment of Ataxia – Rehabilitation Based | tba |
| 12:45-13:15 | Q&A, Discussion |
| 14 March 2025 | Non-neurological Disease Aspects and Cases |
| Chair | — |
| Time (CET) | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:45 | Introduction – Systematics of Non-neurological Aspects | Michèl Willemsen Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| 9:45-10:30 | Speech Treatment in Ataxias | Adam Vogel University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia |
| 10:30-11:15 | Cognitive and Psychiatric Treatment in Huntington’s Disease | Mayke Oosterloo Maastricht University Medical Center, The Netherlands |
| 11:15-11:30 | Q&A, Discussion | |
| 11:30-11:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:45-13:15 | Case Presentations | Expert Panel |
| 13:15-13:30 | Closing Remarks |
To downlaod the programme click here.
For further information please contact Sophie Ripp.
ERN-RND has organized five Winter/Spring Schools in the past:
- Winter School ‘Diagnostics of Rare Movement Disorders’, 31.1.2018 – 02.02.2018, Budapest, Hungary
- Winter School ‘Hereditary White Matter Diseases: Clinic, Genetic, Therapy’,
17-19. January 2019, Budapest, Hungary - Winter School ‘Neurorehabilitation’, 20-22 January 2022, Tübingen, Germany, online; in collaboration with the European Pediatric Neurological Society (EPNS).
- Winter School ‘Neuroimaging’, 23. – 25. March 2023, Tübingen, Germany, online.
- Spring School ‘Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia’, 17. – 19. April 2024, online.