Panel Discussion: The High Cost of Rare Diseases  

Joni Rutter, PhD, Acting Director at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and Annie Kennedy, Chief of Policy and Advocacy at the EveryLife Foundation discuss their organizations’ collective studies showing the direct and indirect...

The Genetic Disorders Mucociliary Clearance Consortium

Stephanie Davis, MD, and Thomas Ferkol, MD,  Professors of Medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discuss the value of being part of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN). Drs. Davis and Ferkol are co-leaders of the Genetic Disorders...

The Impact of Hemophilia on Women and Girls

Shellye Horowitz, a patient with hemophilia and advocate, discusses the impact of hemophilia on women and girls.   Hemophilia Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder that slows the blood clotting process. People with this disorder experience prolonged bleeding...