No Patient Left Behind – Connecting Rare Disease Patients to Orphan Drug Manufacturers

July 28, 2016

If you have ever worked with Orphan Drugs, you know finding appropriate patients is a major commercial challenge. Pharmaceutical sponsors of Orphan Drugs often lack the infrastructure and capabilities necessary to identify physicians who diagnose, treat, and manage these rare patients. TrialCard developed a proven model for making this critical match and has helped many patients gain access to the therapy they so desperately need.

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Orbona Pharma Ltd

Orbona Pharma Ltd is a privately held start up specialist pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives’ of children with rare diseases. Established in late 2011 Orbona Pharma is developing two late stage drugs to treat a number of Orphan diseases. Between 50%-90% of medicines administered to children have not been developed for them (source: EMA and Eurodis) and often Medicines used are those for adults; administered to children by decreasing quantities based on weight, which can be extremely hazardous and is far from ideal. Orbona Pharma is working to address this. Orbona Pharma is working on two late stage drugs in oncology and immunology and is developing a pipeline of other candidates for development. Based in the UK, but with a network of experienced professionals in Europe, the US and elsewhere, Orbona is working hard to establish a global presence.

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