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I recently attended the World Orphan Drug Congress in Boston, MA. The audio for this episode is from my YouTube video that you can find here: Dying to Live

Meredith Patterson is a performing artist, author, and producer whose family was impacted by Huntington's Disease. To learn more about her, please visit her website: https://meredithpatterson.com/

She also has a podcast called "Confessions of an Actress". This week on her podcast, she shared about Huntington's Disease as a way to raise awareness. You can check out the episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/confessions-of-an-actress/id1456371818?i=1000652286159

Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga, PhD, is a young investigator whose current HD research is funded by the Hereditary Disease Foundation. He is using a new Nobel Prize-winning technology called Optical Tweezers to study one huntingtin molecule at a time, which allows access to structural information about pathogenic and non-pathogenic huntingtin variants with unprecedented detail.

Please visit the Hereditary Disease Foundation website for more information.

Jennifer Petrillo Billet PhD is an Executive Director and Program Lead for investigational dalzanemdor, or SAGE-718, at Sage Therapeutics. She is responsible for driving the global development strategy, including delivery of the right evidence for key stakeholders including regulators, payers, and providers, and patients. Dalzanemdor is being evaluated for indications in Huntington’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease. Jennifer has 20 years of deep expertise in the measurement science of Clinical Outcomes Assessments (COAs) and significant experience in all phases of drug development. Jennifer received her Bachelors in Economics at Virginia Tech, and her PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She has published and presented extensively on health economics and outcomes research topics, and clinical research, across a range of leading journals and conferences.

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