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FDA Rare Disease Day Virtual Public Meeting

We are pleased to announce that FDA will be holding a virtual public meeting on Friday, March 5, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST to highlight strategies to support rare disease product development. Please visit the public meeting page to register for the event, https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-meetings-conferences-and-workshops/public-meeting-fda-rare-disease-day-2021-03052021-03052021 To learn more about other activities relevant to rare diseases […]

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The IRDiRC Conference and RE(ACT) Congress moves online.

November 9th 2020 The International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) and The BLACKSWAN Foundation alongside with the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) are hosting a joint online event IRDiRC Conference and RE(ACT) Congress 2021 from 13th to 15th January. This joint online event will continue the IRDiRC Conference series (4th edition) and the RE(ACT) Congress series (6th edition). […]

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GEM Japan releases largest-ever open-access Japanese variant frequency panel

August 25th 2020 GEnome Medical alliance Japan (GEM Japan), a Driver Project of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), has released  GEM Japan Whole Genome Aggregation (GEM-J WGA) — a first-of-its-kind open-access variant frequency panel of 7,609 Japanese whole genome sequences. Researchers at GEM Japan detected  >76M autosomal single nucleotide variations(SNV) and >10M autosomal insertion and deletion (INDEL) […]

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IRDiRC new Resources & recommendations

August 19th 2020 New paper from Dr Gareth Baynam and other authors on diagnostics in rare diseases focused on Indigenous and other minority population groups has recently published by The American Journal of Human Genetics. The scientific article was focused on genomic research done to collect knowledge about pathogenic DNA variants in people with not […]

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IRDiRC new Resources & recommendations

August 19th 2020 New paper from Dr Gareth Baynam and other authors on diagnostics in rare diseases focused on Indigenous and other minority population groups has recently published by The American Journal of Human Genetics. The scientific article was focused on genomic research done to collect knowledge about pathogenic DNA variants in people with not […]

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The Economist: SUFFERING IN SILENCE: ASSESSING RARE DISEASE AWARENESS AND MANAGEMENT IN ASIA-PACIFIC

August 13th 2020 The collective challenge of rare diseases has risen up the policy agenda in both the AsiaPacific region and globally. Various new and revised health and social system measures in Australia, China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan—along with the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Rare Disease Action Plan—reflect a growing recognition of the […]

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