Apr 6, 2022
Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, talks with Meridith O’Connor, a patient advocate and founder of a chronic illness consultancy, about her efforts to raise awareness of myasthenia...
Feb 8, 2022
Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Evanthia Bernitsas, MD, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Immunology Clinical Research Center at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Bernitsas is an expert on NMOSD and its effect on patients of...
Jan 5, 2022
Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews researcher Adrian Krainer, PhD, from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. Dr. Krainer perfected the RNA splicing technique that led to the development of nusinersen, the first treatment for spinal muscular...
Sep 24, 2021
Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Doug Kerr, MD, PhD, chief medical officer at Generation Bio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company is aggressively pursuing redosable gene therapies for hemophilia and other...
Sep 23, 2021
Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Jerry Vockley, MD, PhD, chief of medical genetics at Pennsylvania's UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Vockley is also the founder of INFORM, the International Network for Fatty Acid Oxidation Research and Management, which will hold its...