To raise awareness about rare diseases the Orphan Disease Center organised a social media challenge. The video made by our STXBP1 team was one of the winners of the challenge!

The VU-VUmc STXBP1 team, together with their collaborators, have published a new study on quantitative EEG analysis for STXBP1 syndrome patients. The study is published in the journal Frontiers of Physiology.

In September 2021 a Dutch patient family event was organised by researchers and clinicians involved in STXBP1 research at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Amsterdam UMC, followed by the international event of the STXBP1 foundation.

Claudia Persoon and Matthijs Verhage developed new preclinical screening assays using functional, mature human neurons and CRISPR-Cas9 technology, to promote identification of promising treatment strategies for brain disorders.

A position paper by Verhage & Sorensen published in Neuron on June 19 proposes to unify syndromes caused by mutations in eight core components of the synaptic secretion machinery, based on common etiology and mechanism.

The STXBP1 team of FGA obtained funding from the 2019 Million Dollar Bike Ride event, organized by the Orphan Disease Center in the US, for a high throughput screen to identify new therapeutic interventions for STXBP1 patients.

Researchers at CNCR-FGA and two Italian institutes describe the first two patients with a homozygous STXBP1 mutation. Opposite to known mutations, this mutation increases synaptic transmission. The study is published in the leading journal Brain.

STXBP1 patients, researchers and physicians came together in Dianalund, Denmark on September 20. The STXBP1 day served as an opportunity to meet other patient families, talk to physicians and hear about the current STXBP1 research lines.

Dr. Mala Misra-Isrie and PhD students Annemiek van Berkel and Hanna Lammertse were given the opportunity to attend and present their work at the first STXBP1 Investigators and Family Meeting.

On Saturday the 13th of April, the STXBP1 research team welcomed a new group of STXBP1-E families at the VUmc for a second ‘Clinic day’.