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10 Key Learnings from Successful Cellular and Gene Therapy Trials for Rare Diseases

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Rare diseases can often be progressive, chronic and fatal. Approximately 72 percent of rare diseases are genetic, and around 70 percent of rare genetic diseases emerge in childhood. Sadly, one-third of children with rare diseases die before their first birthday.

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Patient centricity and the changing pharmaceutical vista

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Minimising any of those delays that happen throughout the clinical trial, or the clinical development is really important and, more and more, it’s about having experts involved in providing advice in that clinical development and clinical trial programme [that] is really important.”

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Inozyme Pharma Reports Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Provides Business Highlights

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Separately, Fast Track Designation facilitates the potential expedited development and review of a drug for the treatment of a serious or life-threatening disease and that has demonstrated the potential to address unmet medical needs. H1 2021: Initiation of Phase 1/2 clinical trial. Demetrios Braddock, M.D.,

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Eloxx Pharmaceuticals to Report Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Provide Business Update on November 5, 2020

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As a consequence, patients with premature stop codon diseases have reduced or eliminated protein production from the mutation bearing allele accounting for some of the most severe phenotypes in these genetic diseases. These premature stop codons have been identified in over 1,800 rare and ultra-rare diseases.

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BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. Prices Upsized Offering of $650 Million Convertible Senior Notes

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BridgeBio is a team of experienced drug discoverers, developers and innovators working to create life-altering medicines that target well-characterized genetic diseases at their source. BridgeBio’s pipeline of over 20 development programs includes product candidates ranging from early discovery to late-stage development.

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Novartis Provides Update on AVXS-101 Intrathecal Clinical Development Program

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Trial design and other details are being evaluated and a comprehensive update on the overall Novartis SMA clinical development program will be provided at a future time following further discussions with health authorities. About Spinal Muscular Atrophy SMA is the leading genetic cause of infant death.

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GeneTx and Ultragenyx Announce Positive Interim Phase 1/2 Data on Investigational GTX-102 Demonstrating Improvement in Patients with Angelman Syndrome

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Ultragenyx is a biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing novel products to patients for the treatment of serious rare and ultra-rare genetic diseases. Ultragenyx’s strategy is predicated upon time- and cost-efficient drug development, with the goal of delivering safe and effective therapies to patients with the utmost urgency.

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