A Makeover For An Old Drug
By: Rhonda Rowland, WDA President Wilson disease (WD) was always fatal until Dr. John Walshe, an English physician, discovered penicillamine in 1956. While WD was no longer a death sentence, with [...]
The 100th Registry Participant
By: Rhonda Rowland, WDA President I’m study participant number 30 in the Wilson Disease (WD) Patient Registry. That’s not exciting. However, if you’re participant number 100, you represent a milestone. And, that is [...]
Meet the Inaugural Gene Therapy Candidates
By: Rhonda Rowland, WDA President The two gene therapy clinical trials for Wilson disease (WD) launched by Ultragenyx and Vivet Therapeutics are underway! Here, we introduce the WD community to two [...]