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Bright Minds Biosciences Announces Featured Speakers for its Absence Epilepsy Virtual R&D Day on May 20, 2025
- Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) on Absence seizures include Dennis Dlugos, MD, Wendyl D’Souza...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Bright Minds Biosciences Announces Featured Speakers for its Absence Epilepsy Virtual R&D Day on May 20, 2025\n\n\n\n - Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) on Absence seizures include Dennis Dlugos, MD, Wendyl D’Souza, MBChB, MPH, FRACP, PhD, and Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD -\n \n\n VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bright Minds Biosciences Inc. (CSE: DRUG) (NASDAQ: DRUG) (“\n \n Bright Minds\n \n ” or the “\n \n Company\n \n ”), a company focused on developing highly selective 5-HT2 agonists for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy, depression, and other central nervous system (CNS) disorders, today announced the featured speakers for its virtual R&D Day on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, from 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET.\n \n\n The KOLs will provide an overview of Absence epilepsy and syndromes, highlighting the burden of Absence seizures, their long-term impact on patients, and the need for novel, effective, safe, and well-tolerated drugs.\n \n\n Invited speakers include:\n \n\n\n Dennis Dlugos, MD.\n \n Dr. Dlugos is a professor of neurology and pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is Director of the Section of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship and holds the Tristram C. Colket, Jr. Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurology. Dr. Dlugos is a frequent lecturer on topics related to pediatric neurology, epilepsy, and electroencephalograms and has published papers in Neurology, Epilepsia, Archives of Neurology, Pediatric Neurology, and Journal of Child Neurology.\n \n\n\n Wendyl D’Souza, MBChB, MPH, FRACP, PhD.\n \n Professor Wendyl D’Souza is a neurologist, epilepsy specialist and epidemiologist with over twenty years of experience managing people with seizures, suspected seizures, epilepsy, and their mimickers. He was Head of Epilepsy Services at the Alfred Hospital from 2002-2007 and is currently Head of Epilepsy Services, Director of Neurology Advanced Training and Deputy Director of Neurology in the Department of Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, The University of Melbourne. His current research focuses on idiopathic generalised epilepsies, psychogenic non-epileptic attacks, antiseizure medications and devices, autoimmune epileps...