Medicines Reimagined – Repurposing Drugs For New Indications

As government-supported research in the US is being decimated by funding cuts, it was refreshing to attend REMEDi4ALL’s international drug repurposing conference this past spring. The European Union and private donors fund this consortium of 25 international organizations. For now, much of their focus is on rare diseases—defined in Europe as one affecting 5 in 10,000 people, or 300 million globally. (The…