In this last episode of Season 3 of the MedCity Pivot Podcast — focused on Transforming the Life Sciences — we take a look at the field of rare diseases. In the episode, we meet Rich Horgan, whose younger brother, Terry was diagnosed with an ultra-rare version of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Horgan, who embarked on a journey to save his brother ended up creating Cure Rare Disease, a nonprofit biotech that is currently trying to forge an alternative path to commercializing drugs for the rare disease market.
MedCity Pivot Podcast: Tackling Rare Disease With Someone Who Was Touched By It
Rich Horgan believes that there's an alternative path to drug development that can lower costs and the time it takes to bring drugs to market. He is trying to apply it to the field of rare and ultra-rare diseases.