For the pharmaceutical industry as a whole, addressing the challenge of rare or orphan diseases is high on the agenda. But for the patients and their families, rare diseases can be very isolating and it can often feel like the potential for new treatments is low. One avenue for potential treatments is to identify drug repurposing candidates for the rare disease in question. This talk will give an overview of various collaborative projects undertaken in the last few years, which involved the combination, normalisation and analysis of data from various disparate sources, including some valuable lessons learnt along the way.

Data-driven drug discovery for rare diseases: tales from the trenches

2019 Spring National Meeting

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