PROGRAM

Wednesday April 7, 08.30-12.00 - Training course
Johan Zelano and Francesco Brigo

Conference room: Europa, Wallenberg Center

08.30-10.00 Training course
Francesco Brigo, Johan Zelano 

10.00-10.30 Coffee break 

10.30-12.00 Training course
Francesco Brigo, Johan Zelano

12.00 Lunch
for delegates at the Training course

Wednesday April 7, 13.00-19.30 - STESS 2027 conference

Conference room: Wallenbergsalen

13.00 - 13.30 Welcome
Francesco Brigo and Johan Zelano

13.30 - 15.00 Symposium Recent advances
Machine-learning in epilepsy, 
Francesco Brigo, chair

The SeLECT score and beyond: from prognosis to antiepileptogenesis,
Marian Galovic

New drugs – what to use and when?
Simona Lattanzi

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break, exhibition & posters

15.30 - 16.30 Skills lab (three rooms, pre-registration)

• Clinical trials, Eugen Trinka
• Systematic reviews, Francesco Brigo
• Emulated trials in open data, Kai Schubert 

16.30 - 17.00 Platform sessions

17.15 - 18.00 Sponsored symposium

18.00 Welcome reception in the exhibition

Thursday April 8 - STESS 2027 Conference

08.30 - 10.00 Symposium Biomarkers
Detecting detrimental trajectories.
Johan Zelano, chair

Fluid biomarkers in status epilepticus
Silvia Bozzetti 

Multimodal data for prognostication in stroke, tumors and traumatic brain injury
Kai Schubert

10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break, exhibition & posters

10.30-11.30 Symposium Epileptogenesis
Where now with antiepileptogenesis in symptomatic epilepsies?
Eugen Trinka, chair

Genetics in symptomatic epilepsies
Pierro Perrucca 

DNA metylation in epileptogenesis
Kjell Hauser

11.30-12.00 Platform sessions

12.00-12.30  Lunch

12.30-13.30 Sponsored lunch symposium

13.30 - 15.00 Symposium Preclinical-clinical
Seizure control, prognosis and neuropathological clues in dementia-associated epilepsy
Ifrah Zawar, chair

Human cortical organoids, can they inform clincal epilepsy research?
TBA

Personalised virtual brain models in epilepsy
Viktor Jirsa

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break, exhibition & posters

15.30 - 16.30 Symposium Vascular
Vascular risk factor management in epilepsy
Emelie Johnson, chair

Epilepsy after ICH – specific pathophysiological and management consideration
Rob Rouhl

The LOSTIT-study of vascular risk assesment after first seizures
David Larsson 

16.30 - 17.00 Platform session

Friday April 9 - STESS 2027 Conference

08.30 - 10.00 Symposium Treatment
Can we improve outcomes in status epilepticus in symptomatic epilepsy
Leena Kemppi, chair 

Patient-related outcomes in symptomatic epilepsies
James Mitchell

Time to control, Should we treat seizures faster? 
Erik Tauboll

10.00-10.30 Coffee break, exhibition & posters

10.30-11.30 Workshop collaborations (three rooms pre-registration)

• SELECT
• Biomarkers
• Clinical trials

11.30-12.00 Platform sessions

12.00  Boxed lunch

Last update: May 12, 2026