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Session 5 - Day 2 Opening Session: Advanced Therapies for Rare Diseases - From Breakthrough Science to Sustainable Patient Access
Session Chair(s)
Julian Beach, MBA
Interim Executive Director, Healthcare Quality and Access, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), United Kingdom
Julia Vitarello
Founder & CEO, Mila's Miracle Foundation, Inc., United States
SESSION OVERVIEW:Rare diseases and advanced therapies sit at the frontier of medical innovation, bringing together powerful science, urgent patient need and complex product development and unique regulatory approval challenges. This session will explore how the UK and international partners can support more effective pathways for rare disease and advanced therapy development, while keeping access,?affordability?and implementation in view. The discussion will bring together patient, clinical,?regulatory,?and global perspectives to consider what makes development?feasible, what makes access sustainable, and how health systems can respond when innovation moves faster than established pathways.
SESSION IMPACT:Bringing together diverse voices from industry and regulatory authorities, this session will?provide?a unique opportunity to explore the realities of developing and delivering innovative therapies. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of how to engage regulators effectively,?anticipate?challenges and shape robust long-term strategies that can translate scientific breakthroughs into transformative outcomes for patients.
Speaker(s)
Panel: development, regulation, access and global comparison
John F Crowley
President & CEO, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), United States
Panel: development, regulation, access and global comparison
Tippi C. MacKenzie
Benioff UCSF Professor of Children’s Health & Professor of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, United States
Panel: development, regulation, access and global comparison
Claire Booth
Professor - Gene Therapy and Consultant Paediatric Immunology, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for Children - International & Private Care, United Kingdom
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