Progress report on new antiepileptic drugs: A summary of the Sixteenth Eilat Conference on New Antiepileptic Drugs and Devices (EILAT XVI): II. Drugs in more advanced clinical development

Meir Bialer*, Svein I. Johannessen, Matthias J. Koepp, René H. Levy, Emilio Perucca, Piero Perucca, Torbjörn Tomson, H. Steve White

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Abstract

The Sixteenth Eilat Conference on New Antiepileptic Drugs and Devices (EILAT XVI) was held in Madrid, Spain on May 22–25, 2022 and was attended by 157 delegates from 26 countries representing basic and clinical science, regulatory agencies, and pharmaceutical industries. One day of the conference was dedicated to sessions presenting and discussing investigational compounds under development for the treatment of seizures and epilepsy. The current progress report summarizes recent findings and current knowledge for seven of these compounds in more advanced clinical development for which either novel preclinical or patient data are available. These compounds include bumetanide and its derivatives, darigabat, ganaxolone, lorcaserin, soticlestat, STK-001, and XEN1101. Of these, ganaxolone was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in March 2022 for the treatment of seizures associated with cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 deficiency disorder in patients 2 years of age and older.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2883-2910
Number of pages28
JournalEpilepsia
Volume63
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2022

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© 2022 International League Against Epilepsy.

Keywords

  • antiepileptic drugs
  • antiseizure medications
  • drug development
  • epilepsy

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