The Rare Moments
You know those rare moments that give you goosebumps? The ones that provide a new perspective, connect two ideas in a way you’ve never considered before, or just really hit home?
For Rare Disease Day this February, you’ll find a curation of those moments here — The Rare Moments. Patients, families, researchers, and people working to advance rare disease treatments will be using this space to pass on their goosebump moments. From past moments, to the significant highlights of the 2024 Rare Disease Week and Rare Disease Day, and even hopes for the future, here you will find diverse and valuable insights that matter to our community and expand our reader’s understanding of what it means to live with and work with rare diseases.
Be sure to check back regularly throughout the month to catch the latest posts and submit your Rare Moment for consideration!
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That’s a wrap for now!
This feed is no longer active or accepting submissions, but we encourage you to check out the posts below which were submitted during February 2024 in support of Rare Disease Day.
Resources
Incorporating the Patient’s Voice
White Paper
How To Build Mutually Beneficial Relationships with Advocacy Groups
Insights
How Worldwide and Every Cure Are Using AI To Unlock New Rare Disease Treatments
Insights
Meet Your Rare Disease Team
Fact Sheet
Rare Disease Day
rarediseaseday.org
Glut1 Deficiency Foundation | Research Compass
g1dfoundation.org
Workshop: Qualifying Biomarkers to Support Rare Disease Regulatory Pathways
reaganudall.org
Galactosialidosis Network
galactosialidosis.org
Every Cure
everycure.org
Uplifting Athletes
upliftingathletes.org
We live for the rare moments.
Thank you for sharing and reading this curation from our rare disease community!
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While there are only a few more days until Rare Disease Week officially kicks off and we pivot to posting live from DC, there's still time for a few more rareâ¦
www.linkedin.comThe Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating research and treatment for this rare and often deadly disease, supporting patients on their journeys, and revolutionizing biomedical research to cure countless other diseases. As we recognize Rare Disease Day on February 29, 2024, we are proud to share with you the story of one of the many thousands of Castleman disease patients who inspire our work every day. Learn more at cdcn.org.
So incredibly touched to receive this book from our friends at Ultragenyx. Dr. Emil Kakkis has been at the forefront of rare disease research throughout his entire career. I’m looking forward to reading this book throughout Rare Disease Week!
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We first engaged with Amy Skiba, Executive Director of the Lung Transplant Foundation, to deliver on the organization's externally-led patient focused drugâ¦
www.linkedin.comHappening now through 25 Feb – VCP International Conference!! Check out the abstracts from the many researchers who are participating in this meeting. By bridging the gaps between various disciplines, from oncology to neurodegeneration, the Cure VCP conference will drive innovation and coordination in research, accelerating our progress to find a cure for valosin-containing protein (VCP) associate multisystem proteinopathy (MSP).
www.curevcp.org/posterabstractsI have both worked in clinical research with several rare diseases over the last 35 years, and I also have a son with a rare disease. As a family, we have participated in various clinical trials to help researchers gain a better understanding of the unmet needs for the rare disease. Working on studies with rare diseases can present some challenges but with careful thought, the working together with patient advocate groups and listening to those with the rare disease, good high-quality scientific research and treatments can be developed.
www.pwsa.co.ukBeing both a clinical researcher and a parent/affected individual helps you see clinical research from both sides of the fence, something that really needs to be explored more thoroughly for all research, not just for rare disease.
We are excited to share our Keto Care Project! Ketogenic diets are the current standard of care for Glut1 deficiency. Not all patients have access to ketogenic clinical or high-quality ketogenic diet support. The Keto Care Project aims to provide expert ketogenic dietician care to underserved patients and families. Would this be a useful service to your community?
Keto Care Project | Glut1 Deficiency Foundation
about Glut1 Deficiency is a rare, metabolic condition where glucose transport into the brain is impaired, causing a wide range of neurological symptoms. Ketogenic diets are the current standard of…
www.g1dfoundation.orgThe Orphan Drug Act (ODA) of 1983 made the development of desperately needed new treatments for rare disease patient communities a possibility in ways it truly had not been before. Over the 40 years of the ODA, 6,340 orphan drug designations were granted, representing drug development for 1,079 rare diseases. Additionally, 882 of those designations resulted in at least one FDA approval for use in 392 rare diseases. While having an approved treatment option for 5% of rare disease communities is progress, we’ve seen time and again how partnering with patient communities increases efficiency. Let’s all do more of that!
Fall of 2015, I attended my first rare disease advocacy conference. It was Global Genes Patient Advocacy Summit. I was overwhelmed and amazed at how many people were advocating for rare diseases and how many different paths they took. Meeting Bo Bigelow there certainly shaped my path. Although we faced different diagnoses (USP7 for his daughter Tess and Menkes Syndrome for my son Lucas), we had so much in common. Eventually we co-founded The Disorder Channel to stream rare disease films on TV. We collaborated with Global Genes to screen some of these films. And three years ago, I joined the staff at Global Genes to lead an online support community, to encourage others to share their #ZebraTales, to teach them rare disease filmmaking, and to help plan that same conference that started it all for me.
globalgenes.org/world-rare-disease-day/I’ve worked in this industry approaching 25 years. When I first started, most clinical trials focused on treating disease symptoms so patients could feel better and live fuller lives. Today, though, we’re treating the underlying pathophysiology of diseases, and we’ve only just begun to do amazing science. I’m proud of the work our global teams are doing in Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicines, hopefully leading to a brighter future for rare disease patients everywhere.