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Unity and EU-wide Efforts Focus of Online Rare Disease Meeting

Eurordis, a Paris-based coalition of national rare disease associations across Europe, hosted its first all-virtual conference, bringing some 1,500 delegates from 57 countries together online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 10th European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products (ECRD2020) — which was set for May 14–15 in…

PTC Therapeutics to Seek FDA Approval of AADC Gene Therapy

PTC Therapeutics is planning to request U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of PTC-AADC, its investigational gene therapy to treat aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, the company announced in a corporate update. The request will be made in the form of a biologics license application to the FDA in…