The use or generation of biomedical data and existing medicines to discover and establish new treatments for patients with rare diseases – recommendations of the IRDiRC Data Mining and Repurposing Task Force

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EURORDIS co-authors article on the importance of data mining and repurposing existing medicines for the treatment of rare diseases

Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2019; 14: 225.

Published online 2019 Oct 15. doi: 10.1186/s13023-019-1193-3

PMCID: PMC6794821

PMID: 31615551

The use or generation of biomedical data and existing medicines to discover and establish new treatments for patients with rare diseases – recommendations of the IRDiRC Data Mining and Repurposing Task Force

Noel T Southall,1 Madhusudan Natarajan,2 Lilian Pek Lian Lau,1,3 Anneliene Hechtelt Jonker,3 Benoît Deprez,4,5 Tim Guilliams,6 Lawrence Hunter,7 Carin MA Rademaker,8 Virginie Hivert,9 Diego Ardigò,10 and on behalf of the IRDiRC Data Mining and Repurposing Task Force