The purposes of Undiagnosed Diseases Programs (UDPs) are to provide patients with an unknown genetic condition a diagnosis and to find the correlation between genotype and phenotype; to share globally the information to facilitate the diagnosis through a matchmaking for finding possible second cases

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The TREAT-NMD Advisory Committee for Therapeutics (TACT) is a unique multi-disciplinary model centred upon an international group of academic and industry drug development experts, including patient representatives. TACT gives advice on the translational and development pathway of therapeutic programs in rare Neuromuscular Diseases. Due to its success in the neuromuscular field, a toolkit to replicate the TACT model has been produced. The Advisory Committee for Therapeutics (ACT) toolkit is intended to support rare disease communities outside of Neuromuscular to establish their own ACT, by providing them with step-by-step guidance and template documentation.

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The EUPATI Academy is the only in-depth training program for patient experts so far in EU that lasts 14months.
It includes an on online training program supported with two weeks of F2F training. The Academy is still operated by EPF, providing high quality training in drug development to patient from EMEA.

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Patient Community Advisory Boards are groups established and operated by patient advocates. They facilitate discussions in a safe harbour setting and under strict rules, an MOU and CA on the latest developments and challenges related to medical research and procedures in a disease area with the company or body conducting the research. The CAB can cover from preclinical to post marketing topics. The CAB depending on the areas of discussion can invite scientific expert to serve as advisors.

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