China’s First Non-Profit Rare Disease Foundation Pleas For Therapies

Facing Funding Challenges In Current Climate

Aiming to help create China’s first original treatment for under-researched rare diseases, the Hope for Rare Foundation is racing against a funding crunch to support translational research in China, its co-founder and secretary-general tells Scrip in an interview.

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Hope for Rare Foundation aims to fund research and translational medicines for rare disorders • Source: Shutterstock

Veteran physicians treating rare diseases have had few China-originated medicines at their disposal, but a fledgling Chinese consortium of scientists, entrepreneurs and patient advisors is starting to help change that.

Key Takeaways
  • The Hope for Rare Foundation, China’s first non-profit foundation focusing on research and translational medicine for rare disorders, is racing to search for therapies for the under-researched rare diseases.

  • The organization plans to raise at least CNY30m ($4

Now more than two years into its endeavors, the Hope for Rare Foundation, China’s first non-profit foundation focusing on research and translational medicine for rare disorders, is girding its loins to search for

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