Recently the Journal of Biosciences, Indian Academy of Sciences held a launch symposium for the release of a special issue on the ‘𝗥𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮’ edited by Prof. Alok Bhattacharya, Prof. Sudha Bhattacharya and Dr. Rakesh Mishra
We are thankful for Renee Borges, IISc in getting this special issue out. This serves as an important step for the Indian Rare Disease patient and research community.
The keynote lecture was delivered by Prof. Y.K. Gupta, on the Challenges and strategies for Rare Disease Drug Development at the launch symposium.
Dr. Vinod K Paul, Member, NITI Aayog has written the foreword for the special issue.
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A comprehensive summary on the Current status of research in rare genetic disorders and drug discovery in India was authored by Sudha Bhattacharya, Alok Bhattacharya, and Dr. Rakesh Mishra
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A few articles from TIGS researchers also featured in the special issue, A review on Spinal muscular atrophy: Molecular mechanism of pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapeutics, and Clinical Trials in the Indian context was authored by Shivranjani Moharir, Rajesh Iyer, Sreelekshmi R S, Ashutosh Aasdev.
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Another review on the mRNA biotherapeutics landscape for rare genetic disorders was authored by Rajesh Iyer, Shivranjani Moharir, Rakesh Mishra and Praveen P
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Apart from these various articles of researchers across the country working on several aspects of Rare Diseases are featured in this special issue. Check out the part 1 of the collection (open access) here
