National Institute Of Health Office Of Rare Diseases
Nord a 501 c 3 organization is the leading patient advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families living with rare diseases.
National institute of health office of rare diseases. The office of rare diseases research ordr is the parent entity overseeing the rdcrn network. Established by congress under the rare diseases act in 2002 rdcrn is an initiative of the office of rare diseases research ordr at the national institutes of health s nih s national center for advancing translational sciences ncats. To implement the recommendations of the national commission on orphan diseases.
View our network of 23 active consortia or research groups. Nih is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic clinical and translational medical research and is investigating the causes treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. The office of rare disease research was established in 1993 within the office of the director od national institutes of health nih to respond to the reporting requirements on the orphan drug act.
Nih the nation s medical research agency includes 27 institutes and centers and is a component of the u s. Each year ncats and the nih clinical center sponsor rare disease day at nih as part of this global observance. As the national organization for rare disease s first center of excellence our rare disease institute leads the field in finding better ways to care for patients and families.
The genetic and rare diseases information center gard was created in 2002 by the national human genome research institute nhgri and the office of rare diseases research ordr two agencies at the national institutes of health nih. The genetic and rare diseases information center gard is a program of the national center for advancing translational sciences ncats and is funded by two parts of the national institutes of health nih. It was established in 1993 within the office of the director of the national institutes of health nih the federal focal point for health research.
Rare disease day at nih aims to raise awareness about rare diseases the people they affect and nih research collaborations under way to address scientific challenges and to advance new treatments. Department of health and human services. About the national institutes of health nih.