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ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 29, 2021-- The international rare disease patient advocacy organization, Global Genes, is pleased to announce the 6th Annual RARE Drug Development Symposium (RDDS) in partnership with the Orphan Disease Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The June 9-11 virtual event will connect and educate hundreds of advocates, clinicians, and academic and industry researchers to explore the latest science, opportunities, and challenges to the advancement of therapies for more than 7,000 rare diseases. New to this year's event is an optional preconference work...

Early in the pandemic, researchers began exploring various avenues to repurposing drugs for COVID-19. There are many paths to repurposing, including high-throughput drug screening, which uses automated methods to screen thousands or even millions of molecules for targeted biological activity in a disease of interest. Other approaches include focusing on a certain biological mechanism of action (like testing other antivirals in COVID); combing through clinical trial data and public records; or, in the case of sildenafil citrate (Viagra), incidental clinical observation. (See MedPage Today's f...

email article So far in the pandemic, support for research on drug repurposing -- particularly for inexpensive generics -- has not played a huge role in finding new treatments for COVID-19, but that appears to be changing. Critics charge that drug repurposing is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It does not always work, and can raise false hopes and waste resources. In a March 7 interview with 60 Minutes, for instance, NIH director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, said drug repurposing "is only going to work if you're kind of lucky, because you're basically picking things that were...

, the MCU’s first film to feature a protagonist of Asian descent. It’s been a long road from comics to screen for this particular Marvel project. The publisher’s first attempts to make a Shang-Chi movie date back to the 1980s, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was originally slated for a Feb. 12, 2021 release date to coincide with the first day of the Chinese New Year, but pandemic-related delays shifted the release date three times. But with the release of its first trailer, Disney seems confident that the Destin Daniel Cretton ( Short Term 12)-directed movie — starrin...

Kevin Feige. CREDIT: Getty Images Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has said that fans “won’t have to wait very long” to see a Southeast Asian superhero on Disney+. Feige was speaking at a press conference today (February 2) for the streaming service’s launch in Singapore. In a Q&A segment, Feige was asked about the possibility of a a Southeast Asian superhero on Disney+, given the upcoming release of Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon, which is inspired by Southeast Asian cultures and premiering on Disney+ on March 5. When asked if it was “high time we get a ...