376: James Geraghty | Biotechnology For Rare Diseases “Inside The Orphan Drug Revolution”

05/12/2022 42 min
376: James Geraghty | Biotechnology For Rare Diseases “Inside The Orphan Drug Revolution”

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Episode Synopsis

Advances in medicine have made possible better treatments for widespread, familiar human illnesses like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Yet there are thousands of much less common diseases, most of genetic origin, each classed as “rare” because it afflicts only a small number of people. These patient groups were long ignored by a pharmaceutical industry […]