• Dr. Marcelo Andrade: "Our intention is to include patients, families and health professionals from around the world in the registry of COVID-19 and rare diseases"

    Through collaboration between Sant Joan de Déu and Garrahan Hospital, an ambitious project that connects COVID-19 and rare diseases has been developed. The initiative has supported the creation of a
  • International Congress on the Effects of COVID-19 on People with Rare Diseases

    The International Congress on the Effects of COVID-19 on People with Rare Diseases will be held on November 9-11th 2020 and it is organized by the Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children's Hospital
  • Lessons learned: Share4Rare’s new Digital Informed Consent

    All around the globe, 2020 has brought with it a lot of downs. However, it has also brought some very valuable ups, mainly in the form of lessons learnt and powerful insights into what we are capable
  • The case of undiagnosed profiles in Share4Rare

    Share4Rare has very nice support for patient profiles with a diagnosis. These users will find that Share4Rare is a system in which they can interact, communicate, and share knowledge with other users
  • Data for a difference — The Share4Rare research feature for patient organisations

    Violeta Astratinei is a Ph.D. biologist with a background in environmental research. After she lost her sister to melanoma in 2014, she became a core member of Melanoma Patient Network Europe, MPNE
  • Gemma Marfany: "Researchers, patients and families must come together to fight rare diseases"

    Gemma Marfany is a professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Barcelona (UB) and head of Unit U718 at CIBERER, the Spanish biomedical research centre for rare diseases. She is also a
  • New Share4Rare webinar: “International patient registry for rare diseases and COVID-19”

    On September 18th Share4Rare organizes a webinar along with the Garrahan Hospital from Buenos Aires (Argentina) to present the new international patient registry that will be created in the platform
  • Between hype and hope: the truth about gene therapy and genome editing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

    About Duchenne muscular dystrophy Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common form of muscular dystrophy affecting around 1 in 5,000 newborn boys worldwide. The main characteristic is a
  • Meeting the partners — John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre

    Dr. Michela Guglieri is Honorary Consultant in Human Genetics and is working as a Neurologist and Senior Research Associate at the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre (JWMDRC). Upon
  • New webinar — Patient advocates fostering research in oncology: the Share4Rare experience

    One of the pillars of Share4Rare is to enhance collaborative research. For that purpose, at the end of 2019 the platform started piloting four research projects concerning several groups of rare
  • The new “People Like Me” version in the Share4Rare platform

    The goal of Share4Rare is to advance the knowledge of rare diseases through collaborative intelligence. This approach assumes a philosophy based on equity, in which the more information the user
  • ASCO 2020 — Free learning opportunity for patients!

    ASCO Annual Meetings are great opportunity for healthcare professionals and patients advocates all over the world to follow the latest scientific news in cancer research. Exceptionally this year, in