Sentences with phrase «advancing rare disease research»

About the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC): IRDiRC was formed to unite public and private sector funders of research, patient advocacy groups, and scientific researchers to advance rare diseases research worldwide.

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«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»

New products and developments, such as new drugs for cancer, fresh therapies for rare diseases, progress in medications for HIV / AIDS, and advances in stem cell research had the greatest positive impact.

In new research, scientists reprogrammed skin cells from patients with rare blood disorders into iPSCs, highlighting the great promise of these cells in advancing understanding of those challenging diseases — and eventually in treating them.

UCLA researchers led by Drs. Peiyee Lee and Richard Gatti at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to advance disease - in - a-dish modeling of a rare genetic disorder, Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T).

Overall, despite the dramatic therapeutic advances made elsewhere in the melanoma field, the poor prognosis of patients with mucosal melanoma mandates continued emphasis on laboratory and clinical research efforts in this rare subset of disease.

This tool is one of the main outcomes of RD - Connect, the EU - funded project that has built a community of patients, clinicians, researchers and bioinformaticians in Europe and beyond, and has advanced collaboration and data sharing to facilitate and accelerate research for rare diseases.

Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer aims to advance research on several rare forms of inherited colorectal cancers, as well as improve clinical care for patients and families affected by these diseases.

If used broadly, the recognized platforms / tools / standards / guidelines advance research and clinical services for rare diseases.

Scientific advances can also take a long time, as it is difficult to find sufficient numbers of people with the same rare disease to enable successful research.

In the last five years, major advances in genomic technology, especially in sequencing whole genomes and whole exomes (the portion of the genome that codes for proteins), have given rare disease research an important boost.

The ultimate goal is to form a national resource to diagnose both rare and new disease, advance laboratory and clinical research, enhance collaboration and coordination among researchers, and share resulting data and approaches throughout the scientific community.

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