New national rare disease strategy for Ireland

Increasing public awareness is essential for understanding the challenges faced by the rare disease community. Awareness helps to foster acceptance and reduces the stigma that is often associated with rare diseases. Rare disease campaign promotes understanding I Am Number Seventeen is a public awareness campaign initiated and funded by Takeda Products Ireland in partnership with … Continued

A Cork-based research team is developing groundbreaking gene editing strategies that target multiple variants to tackle rare diseases. At the genetic level, we each have many, small variants in our DNA that make each of us unique. Occasionally, one of these variants disrupts the instructions for making an essential protein in our body. This is … Continued