The Foundation For Rare Diseases has a mission of general interest: to accelerate research on all rare diseases. It aims at contributing to the identification of the causes of each rare disease, the emergence of drug candidates and the improvement of life of patients.
SUPPORT AND FINANCE RESEARCH PROJECTS
The Foundation pursues an active scientific policy to support research on all rare diseases. With 4 to 6 calls for proposals per year, the main selection criteria is scientific excellence.
Thanks to agreements with cutting-edge technological platforms spread over the France, the Foundation ensures that researchers have access to the latest technological advances and essential skills to perform innovative research.
ADVISE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH TEAMS
Since its creation, the Foundation has been firmly rooted in regions through its team of regional managers who provide close support to medical doctors and regional research teams.
These managers are present inside regional university-hospital and thus offer a unique proximity with research teams, reference centers and health networks, as well as with structures for research valorization.
Regional managers also detect and accompany the development of proof of therapeutic principle. The Foundation works to bring academic laboratories together with pharmaceutical companies thus accelerating the development of rare diseases treatments.