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Patient-driven search for rare disease therapies: the Fondazione Telethon success
story and the strategy leading to Strimvelis
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Monaco L
; Faccio L
EMBO Mol Med
2017[Mar]; 9
(3
): 289-292
PMID28148554
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The recent approval of Strimvelis, the first ex vivo gene therapy to gain
marketing authorization (Schimmer & Breazzano, 2016), has drawn attention to
Fondazione Telethon, the Italian charity that played a pivotal role in this
effort. Although it is not uncommon that advanced therapies, such as Strimvelis,
are developed by partnerships between academia and industry, direct involvement
of a charity in key steps of this process is still unusual. Illustrating the
strategies and operational model adopted by Fondazione Telethon to achieve its
mission of supporting excellent research aimed at curing rare genetic diseases
may elucidate some of the enabling factors behind the Strimvelis success story.