Author: Kiran Singh

Biologics and you

Biologics and you

In our last post we talked specifically about orphan drugs that are small molecules. In this post I’ll address the orphan drugs that are biologics. They behave differently: There’s a possible increase in cost/year around 2006 but it doesn’t seem to remain...
Orphan drug prices and approvals

Orphan drug prices and approvals

This post kicks off a series about drug prices in the orphan drug space. We initially wanted to get a sense of orphan drug price trends over the last 30 years — since the passage of the Orphan Drug Act of 1983. There were a few published industry reports...
Data data everywhere

Data data everywhere

I recently went to a conference where there was a panel discussion titled ‘Data Driven Research/Integrative Biology’. The talk was what you would expect it to be: a group of bioinformaticians fielding very vague questions regarding cultural truisms of the Data...
What is a precision orphan drug?

What is a precision orphan drug?

To cap off our Niemann-Pick C disease blog series — here are parts 1, 2, and 3 — we’ll take a closer look at the two ends of the NPC1 protein, and the roles they play in shaping how NPC1 proteins are transported from sites of production to sites of action...
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