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Rare Disease Clinical Trial Expertise
Getting Your Novel Therapies to Patients Everywhere
We understand that nothing is standard when developing a therapy for a rare or ultra-rare disease. From regulatory pathway selection to patient recruitment challenges to navigating the volume of data to collect and clean - a rare disease therapy requires an extraordinary amount of coordination.
Veristat’s scientific-minded experts excel at supporting the development of therapies to treat rare and ultra-rare diseases, accounting for >30% of the work we do. Our trusted expertise comes from more than 850 rare/ultra-rare disease projects, 50% of these in the last 5 years, and from the preparation of 85+ marketing applications for rare disease treatments and cures.
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Rare Cancer Projects
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Rare Genetic Disease Projects
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Rare Endo/Metabolic Projects
Our Focus on Complex and Rare Diseases
Planning Around Trial Complexities
Rare disease trials present additional unique challenges and opportunities. We help determine if your study qualifies for an expedited regulatory approval pathway – such as Orphan Drug Designation, Fast Track designation, or Priority Review – and we will represent you at US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) meetings.
Veristat ensures that your clinical trial or program design supports your regulatory strategy, disease progression analytical models, or previous adult trials. Our experienced teams are poised to plan and implement these efforts quickly, providing:
- Development of regulatory strategy, expedited pathways, and regulatory agency interactions
- Clinical program planning, inclusive of statistical planning and analysis
- Agile patient recruitment strategies to support virtual trial and hybrid approaches
- Writing of clinical trial, safety, and regulatory documents
- Preparation and defense of Marketing Applications – NDAs, BLAs, NDSs, MAAs, jNDAs, etc.
- Collection of real world evidence with prospective and retrospective natural history studies
- Rapid deployment of clinical trial databases
- Virtual and remote clinical and medical site monitoring
- Data analysis and migration into CDISC formats
- Post-Marketing Pharmacovigilance and Safety Monitoring to ensure patient safety beyond regulatory approval
Strategies for Success
Given the challenges of finding, recruiting, and retaining patients for rare disease trials, there are countless considerations to improve clinical program success:
- Consider using a central site model to ease patient participation and travel burden.
- By adding a virtual site or an at-home visit model, you can reach a broader patient pool and accelerate your study enrollment timelines.
- Select the right regulatory strategies, study design, and expedited pathway(s)
- Understand the specific disease progression through a natural history study to determine how that might affect study design, data capture, and safety reporting
- Listen to our podcast on Considerations for Developing Rare Disease Treatments to hear Veristat experts share important clinical development and regulatory planning considerations.
Fortunately, patients with rare diseases and their families are among the most involved and proactive patient populations in the world. They participate in trial design and help recruit other patients as well as build registries. Most of all, they want rare disease therapies that work, and they are encouraging sponsors to take their research to the international level. At Veristat, we think this is a promising approach.
I am grateful for the dedication, excitement, and clinical trial expertise that the Veristat team has given Alnylam since the start of this program. Veristat accepted our challenge and their collaboration has been critical to the successful clinical trials that led to the U.S. FDA approval of ONPATTRO.
Akshay Vaishnaw, MD, PhD
President of R&D at Alnylam
Rare Disease Indication Highlights
Our deep rare disease expertise spans across every therapy area, below is a select listing of key indications:
Sampling of Rare Disease Indications |
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) | Amyloidosis |
beta-Thalassemia | Cold Agglutinin Disease (CAD) | CTCL/PTCL |
Cystic Fibrosis | Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) | Ebola |
Follicular Lymphoma | Friedreich's Ataxia | Gaucher Disease |
Glioblastoma | Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) | Hemophilia |
Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) | Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis | Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura |
Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 2i (LGMD2i) | Lipodystrophy | Lysosomal Acid Lipase (LAL) Deficiency |
Mesothelioma | Multiple Myeloma | Ovarian Cancer |
Pancreatic Cancer | Renal Cell Carcinoma | Sickle Cell Disease |
Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome (SLS) | Tardive Dyskinesia | Tourette's Syndrome |
Transthyretin (TTR)-Mediated Amyloidosis | West Nile Virus | Yellow Fever |