Dr. Christina Waters outlines her vision for sharing global genomic data to better diagnose and treat rare diseases.

Rare disease touches families all over the world. We aim to overcome geographic boundaries, lower the barrier of access to genomics, shorten diagnostic odysseys, and accelerate new treatments for #EveryRare disease.

“Kids with rare diseases urgently need an ‘end to end’ solution to find out what’s causing their condition and if there are any options to treat it,” says Christina Waters, PhD. 

Many advocacy groups are funding research, raising awareness, and pursuing important new options for their specific diseases. But a true systematic approach that can solve more rare disease cases more quickly and understand the biology underlying these diseases, requires lots of global collaboration, data, and the technology to pull it all together and put it to use.