Innovative diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in potassium channel developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (K-DEEs) using 4P for medicine.
Pr. Rima Nabbout
Rima Nabbout has been a professor of Paediatric Neurology since 2014, and the director of the National Centre for Rare Epilepsies since 2006 at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital. She received a MD in 1990, a Ph.D. in Neurosciences in 2003, and a « Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches » (Accreditation to supervise research) in 2010. More recently, she holds a research and academic position at Imagine Institute in the team “Translational Research for Neurological Diseases” where she leads the epilepsy research program.
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K-Channelopathies 2026 Symposium
Hotel Mercure Paris Gare Montparnasse TGV – Paris, France 24-26 September 2026 “We are delighted to invite you to a landmark conference […]
Expanding the phenotypic and genotypic spectrum of KCNT1-related epilepsies
Gras M., Quentin-Romand G., Chemaly N., Barcia G., KCNT1 consortium, Nabbout R., Brain Communications, 2026 https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcag256 Abstract The KCNT1 gene encodes for a sodium-activated potassium […]
Revealing Intermediate States of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels with Physics-Informed Deep Learning: Application to Kv7.1
Kacher J., Tarek M., Frontiers in Biophysics, 2026 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/biophysics/articles/10.3389/frbis.2026.1877588/abstract Abstract Voltage-gated potassium channels convert changes in membrane voltage into pore opening through conformational […]
