APPROACH
Doing more with less.
The impact of rare disease is anything but small. There are over 7,000 known rare diseases affecting an estimated 350 million people worldwide — more than the number of cancer and AIDS patients combined. And the innovations resulting from rare disease research — Penicillin, X Rays, Insulin and the Smallpox vaccine to name just a few — have benefitted all of humankind. Yet traditional methods of research simply aren’t set up to find fast, cost-effective cures for rare diseases.
To solve this problem, we developed a new method for rare disease research. We modeled this approach after that of a startup, which is designed to make the most impact in the shortest period of time and with limited resources.
Move fast and share everything.
We do everything we can to reduce the barriers to research discoveries. That starts with assembling a team of experts from every corner of science and medicine. Through expedited and strategic funding, we clear the path so that these experts can focus on their research. The discoveries made by each researcher are then shared with the rest of the team. In this open and collaborative environment, researchers are encouraged to iterate and build on the work of others. In this way, research accelerates, more breakthroughs are made and more patients suffering from rare disease are brought that much closer to treatments and cures.
