Welcome to the MLD Foundation’s new blog! We’re excited to share about topics of interest to the MLD, lysosomal disease, leukodystrophy, and frankly, the entire rare disease community.
Many of you in the general public and the MLD Family know us from the family support we provide to families affected by MLD … MLD Family Conferences™, MLD Family Gatherings™, the MLD Family Discussion List™, the MLD Foundation web site, etc., but that is only a part of what we do!
We spend a lot of “behind the scenes” time working with researchers (both academic and at industry) and an increasing amount of effort affecting policy. We are active in Newborn Screening, FDA policy (PDUFA, FDADSIA, compassionate access, Patient representative Program, etc.), NIH projects (RDCRN, CPAG, NCATS, GRDR, ORDR, etc.), educating and impacting Capital Hill (we can’t “lobby” but our voices are heard loud and clear on funding, sequester, and impacting new legislation), a slew of rare disease activities (registries, biobanks, World Rare Disease Day) and the list goes on.