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Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium Selects 8 Rare Diseases for Clinical Trial Portfolio

XTalks

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) announced this week that the Accelerating Medicines Partnership Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium (AMP BGTC) has selected eight rare diseases for its clinical trial portfolio.

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Leveraging Genetic Testing for Enrolling Rare Disease Trials

Worldwide Clinical Trials

Much of what we discuss I covered in my presentation, “Leveraging Genetics to Support Rare Disease Clinical Trials,” at last year’s World Orphan Drug Congress (WODC) EU. In my capstone, I focused on how, if, and when genetic counselors discuss clinical trials with their patients in the context of a counseling session.

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

XTalks

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

pharmaphorum

Clinical trials design and patient input The definition of patient centricity, in fact, and its benefits are now – finally – being defined by patients themselves. “We We talk a lot in clinical trials and drug development about benefit,” Dr Mullen said. But who is benefitting?

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Advances in neuroscience drug discovery

Drug Discovery World

For example, it can take up to it three years to recruit enough participants for a dementia clinical trial. years it takes to complete an entire cancer clinical trial. The organisation also notes that only 1% of the people that can take part in dementia clinical trials actually do so. This compares to the 2.3

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