The use or generation of biomedical data and existing medicines to discover and establish new treatments for patients with rare diseases – recommendations of the IRDiRC Data Mining and Repurposing Task Force

The use or generation of biomedical data and existing medicines to discover and establish new treatments for patients with rare diseases – recommendations of the IRDiRC Data Mining and Repurposing Task Force

Abstract The number of available therapies for rare diseases remains low, as fewer than 6% of rare diseases have an approved treatment option. The International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) set up the multi-stakeholder Data Mining and Repurposing (DMR) Task Force to examine the potenti...

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Main Authors: Noel T Southall, Madhusudan Natarajan, Lilian Pek Lian Lau, Anneliene Hechtelt Jonker, Benoît Deprez, Tim Guilliams, Lawrence Hunter, Carin MA Rademaker, Virginie Hivert, Diego Ardigò, on behalf of the IRDiRC Data Mining and Repurposing Task Force
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
Subjects:
Rare disease
Data mining
Repurposing
Repositioning
Therapies
Drug development
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13023-019-1193-3

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