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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…

Ovid CEO Has High Hopes for OV101 to Treat Angelman Worldwide

Pharmaceutical industry leader Jeremy Levin believes his company is on the cusp of winning approval for the first medicine that treats the underlying cause of Angelman syndrome. Levin is CEO of New York-based Ovid Therapeutics, a publicly traded company that’s poured a good chunk of its resources into…