Press Announcements > FDA awards six grants for natural history studies in rare diseases

Press Announcements > FDA awards six grants for natural history studies in rare diseases

		FDA awards six grants for natural history studies in rare diseases
		NIH NCATS provides support to increase number of grants awarded

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it has awarded six new research grants for natural history studies in rare diseases. The aim of the research is to inform medical product development by better understanding how specific rare diseases progress over time. One potential application of these studies is the opportunity to eventually use natural history models to augment the need for placebo arms in studies of drugs that target very rare disease, where trial recruitment can be challenging. Continue reading.