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Zachary Brennan
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Grace Science's story offers a peak inside the difficulties behind developing drugs to treat ultra-rare conditions, even with the backing of tens of millions of dollars and a Nobel winner as a cofounder. Read more below and if you're a company that also has sought to use the FDA’s new plausible mechanism pathway, don't be afraid to reach me at zachary@endpointsnews.com. 

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Zachary Brennan
Senior Editor, Endpoints News
@ZacharyBrennan
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by Zachary Brennan

Grace Sci­ence ap­peared to be one of the few com­pa­nies fight­ing ul­tra-rare dis­eases whose gene ther­a­py can­di­date might make it across the fin­ish line.

Co-found­ed...

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by Zachary Brennan

The phar­ma in­dus­try and rare dis­ease ad­vo­cates voiced con­cerns about the trans­paren­cy and fair­ness of the Com­mis­sion­er's Na­tion­al Pri­or­i­ty Vouch­er pi­lot pro­gram.

The pro­gram faces...

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by Zachary Brennan

The House Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee told the FDA to re­form the way it signs off on new clin­i­cal tri­als, re­flect­ing a broad­er ef­fort to en­sure the...

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by Max Bayer

Bio­phar­ma in­dus­try lob­by groups work­ing to keep the pipeline open for plen­ti­ful, low­er-cost drugs com­ing from Chi­na have awak­ened to the fact that they face...

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Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas (Francis Chung/Politico via AP Images)
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by Zachary Brennan

Ex­ec­u­tives from 15 rare dis­ease-fo­cused non­prof­its met on Wednes­day with act­ing FDA Com­mis­sion­er Kyle Dia­man­tas and se­nior staff.

In the meet­ing, Dia­man­tas made it clear...

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by Max Bayer

Act­ing FDA Com­mis­sion­er Kyle Dia­man­tas is­n't in­ter­est­ed in keep­ing the job and the search for a per­ma­nent re­place­ment is pro­gress­ing, ac­cord­ing to a source fa­mil­iar...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

The Supreme Court unan­i­mous­ly sided with Hik­ma Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals and its “skin­ny la­bel” ver­sion of a pre­scrip­tion-strength fish oil pill in a case that was close­ly...

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