New IRDiRC Publication: “Advancing Diagnosis and Research for Rare Genetic Diseases in Indigenous Peoples”

IRDiRC has just announced the launch of the latest publication titled “Advancing Diagnosis and Research for Rare Genetic Diseases in Indigenous Peoples” now available on nature.com.Read the publication here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01642-1“The Indigenous populations taskforce brought together Indigenous and non-Indigenous rare disease leaders from across the globe to tackle the inequity in rare diseases diagnosis. The outputs provide…

New IRDiRC Publication – Drug Repurposing for Rare: Progress and Opportunities for the Rare Disease Community

The latest IRDiRC paper, « Drug Repurposing for Rare: Progress and Opportunities for the Rare Disease Community » has been published in Frontiers in Medicine. The paper is available here. This open-access publication, reflecting the collaborative efforts of the IRDiRC Drug Repurposing Task Force and the IRDiRC Therapies Scientific Committee over the past 1.5 years, is a…

New article: Identifying obstacles hindering the conduct of academic-sponsored trials for drug repurposing on rare-diseases: an analysis of six use cases

A new article entitled Identifying obstacles hindering the conduct of academic-sponsored trials for drug repurposing on rare-diseases: an analysis of six use cases has been published on September 15th. This paper, in which EJP RD members participated in, identifies hurdles in the set-up of six multinational clinical trials for drug repurposing, as use cases. Read…

Commentary on 10 years of IRDiRC published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

The International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) is proud to announce the publication of a commentary on 10 years of progress and challenges of IRDiRC in the prestigious journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. The article summarizes IRDiRC’s vision and goals and highlights its achievements and prospects after its first decade (2011–2021). The commentary has been authored by Lucia Monaco…