In the context of the IRDiRC Interview Series, Marjon Pasmooij’s interview is now available. Marjon is a member of IRDiRC’s Therapies Scientific Committee and Science Programme Manager at Medicines Evaluation Board (CBG/MEB), University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. Watch the full interview here
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IRDiRC has four Scientific Committees, one each for Diagnostics, Therapies, Interdisciplinary, and Regulatory aspects of rare diseases research. The Therapies Scientific Committee (TSC) is a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary group of experts in medical research and therapy development in rare diseases. Specifically, the TSC is devoted to pursuing the therapeutic development of IRDiRC, supporting the rare diseases […]
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The registration for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing is now open. The event will take place on 6-8 March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute, London UK. Register for free here The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing will take place on 6-8 March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute, London […]
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In addition to the Orphan Products Grants Program that the Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD) currently administers, a new grant program was established this year by the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Act (ACT for ALS) named the FDA Rare Neurodegenerative Disease Grant Program. This new program will be administered […]
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IRDiRC is glad to partner with Alexion’s annual Rare Conversations conference, “Rare Disease Policies: Pioneering the way towards a resilient ecosystem”, that we will partner. The event will reflect on several aspects that may be included in the new legislative framework, trying to answer the question: How to create a resilient rare disease ecosystem for the […]
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In the context of the IRDiRC Interview Series, Funders Constituent Committee member and Fondazione Telethon’s Head of Affairs Stefano Benvenuti’s interview is now available. “IRDiRC is a great opportunity for knowing more and doing your job better” says Stefano Benvenuti. Watch the full interview here
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The recording of the Science/AAAS webinar on the subject “Knowledge is power: The urgent need to internationalize databases for rare disease patients” will be made available on September 29th at 12:00 PM EST. The webinar is expected to last approximately 60 minutes, during which a board of global experts (among which Lucia Monaco, former IRDiRC […]
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IRDiRC member organization Fondazione Telethon is delighted to share the press release of their participation in the European AGORA (Access to Gene therapies fOr RAre disease) Consortium. The AGORA Consortium was founded on September, 23rd 2022 with a focus on fostering alternative solutions to make life-saving gene therapies available for children born with rare genetic diseases. According […]
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The International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) and the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) are jointly organizing a two-day conference on clinical research networks (CRNs) for rare diseases, which will take place on December 1 and 2. The objective of this conference is to gather experts from different continents to increase mutual knowledge […]
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IRDiRC is delighted to share the release of Connecting the dots: Embedding progress on rare disease into healthcare, an Economist Impact report sponsored by Takeda, a company that is part of IRDiRC’s Companies Constituent Committee. The report, to which IRDiRC members Takeya Adachi, Gareth Baynam and Hugh Dawkins contribute as an expert panel, takes a […]
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