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Transcript of Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue's remarks.Read the transcript.
Summit 2009 Power Point Presentations

Improving Treatment for Rare Diseases
Sol J. Barer, PhD
Chairman and CEO, Celgene |
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Driving Innovation - FDA's Critical Path
Initiative
Rachel E. Behrman MD, MPH
Associate Commissioner
for Clinical Programs
Food and Drug
Administration
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A New Public-Private Partnership Model
for Rare and Neglected Disease Therapeutics
Francis S. Collins MD,PhD
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Drug Approval Standard: Application to
Rare Diseases
John K. Jenkins, MD
Director, Office of New
Drugs
FDA Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research
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Accelerating Innovation for Rare Diseases
Emil D. Kakkis MD, PhD
President and Founder,
Kakkis EveryLife Foundation
Former Chief Medical
Officer, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
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Challenges Faced by Industry
David Meeker, MD
Executive Vice President,
Therapeutics, Biosurgery and Transplant
Genzyme
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Balancing Safety and Access
Daniel G. Schultz, MD
Director, Center for
Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug
Administration
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Proposal to Accelerate Development of
Treatments for Rare Diseases
Janet Woodcock, MD
Director, FDA Center for Drug Evaluation
and Research
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CBER's Role in Development of Products
for Rare Diseases
Robert A.Yetter PhD
Associate Director for
Review Management
FDA Center for
Biologics Evaluation and Research
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