Shortly after the International Day for Rare Diseases on February 28, and in keeping with this year’s theme ‘Rare Disorders without Borders,’ the European Commission put out a plan to promote the development of 200 new treatments or orphan drugs for rare diseases by the year 2020 – allocating $187 million towards research in this area. The initiative plans to bring together several hundred investigators from 29 different countries.
EU Fights Rare Diseases
In the European Union (EU), a rare disease is defined as one which affects fewer than five people per 10,000. Although the relative number of individuals affected may be less than for other more common diseases, with 7,000 known rare diseases the number of affected individuals is still significant.
With an increase in research funding for the development of orphan drugs, the EU hopes to have a greater impact on the treatment of rare diseases.
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