Impact Features
Dynamic teams of physicians, researchers, patients, and patient advocates work together in each RDCRN consortium to advance rare diseases research. This page collects feature articles highlighting both the work of the RDCRN consortia and the people behind that work. Choose the consortium acronym at the top of the page to view features articles related to that consortium.
January 29, 2024
The Rare Diseases Act of 2002 (H.R. 4013) enacted the establishment of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) in 2003.
June 7, 2022
Fernando Scaglia, MD, is a professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine; co-director of the Pediatric…
June 3, 2022
The North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium (NAMDC) was established to create a network of clinicians and clinical investigators in North…
May 26, 2022
Art Estopinan is a government consultant and political advisor who has spent his life advocating for different causes. When his son Arturo, now 11,…
May 19, 2022
Zarazuela Zolkipli-Cunningham, MBChB, MRCP, is an attending physician in the Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program (MMFP) at Children's Hospital of…