Clinical Trial Development Challenges

Rennie McCarthy, Chief Executive Officer at Stealth Biotherapeutics, discusses clinical trial development challenges for ultra-rare diseases.      Stealth Biotherapeutics is developing elamipretide, a mitochondrial protective agent, as a possible treatment...

Treating Primary Immunodeficiency

Lisa Forbes Satter, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, explains current treatment options for patients with primary Immunodeficiency (PI).   PI is a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders characterized by impaired immune...

Diagnosing Primary Immunodeficiency 

Lisa Forbes Satter, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, explains why it often takes years to properly diagnose Primary Immunodeficiency (PI).   PI is a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders characterized by impaired immune...

SMA Gene Therapy Continues to Show Efficacy

    Sitra Tauscher-Wisniewski, MD, Vice President of Clinical Development & Analytics at Novartis Gene Therapies, discusses long-term data for onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma), an FDA-approved gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). SMA is a...

GM1 Gangliosidosis Explained

Samiah Al-Zaidy, MD, Vice President of Clinical Development and Lead on the Passage Bio GM1 Gangliosidosis (GM1) Program, gives an overview of GM1.   As Dr. Al-Zaidy explains, GM1 is an inherited lysosomal disorder caused by mutations in the GLB1 gene. These...