Fibromuscular Dysplasia and the “String of Beads”

  Jeffrey W Olin, DO, Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses the “string of beads” as the description typically given to the appearance of the renal artery in fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD). It was originally...

Solid Biosciences and the Role of Advocates

  Ilan Ganot, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Solid Biosciences discusses how his company views advocates and patients who have Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Mr. Ganot started Solid in 2013 to find treatments, and potentially a cure, for DMD, a disease that...

Gene Therapy Will Get Less Expensive

  Harrison Brown, PhD, BBA, is the Chief Science Officer at Odylia Therapeutics, a non-profit corporation working to help develop gene therapies for rare eye disease. As Dr. Brown explains in this video, gene therapy is ideal suited for many rare diseases since...

PTC Therapeutics Company Overview

  Mark Pykett, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at PTC Therapeutics, provides an overview of his company, including its focus on rare diseases. Mark leads the research initiatives of PTC. Before joining the company in August 2018, Mark held a number of executive...