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Better Health, Brighter Future for Rare with Dan Curran

Oct 04, 202330 minEp. 36
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Episode description

Dr. Daniel Curran leads Takeda’s efforts to unlock innovation and deliver transformative medicines in a variety of rare-disease areas. Dan embraces learning from, collaborating with, and meeting members of the rare disease community in an effort to produce treatments that result in better health and a brighter future for rare.

  • 2:02 How rare disease is defined at Takeda
  • 4:10 Rare disease units at Takeda
  • 5:23 How Takeda economically justifies half of their pipeline being rare disease drugs
  • 9:06 The price of rare disease drugs is too high
  • 12:15 Why rare disease efforts are often associated with hematology
  • 14:57 What Dr. Curran enjoys about leading Takeda's rare genetics and hematology therapeutic unit
  • 16:42 Dr. Curran's professional journey
  • 20:50 Takeda's choice to support n-Lorem

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