Cell research on rare Disease finds new link to inflammation: The discovery of an inflammatory driver in a rare syndrome may have implications for more common diseases like Parkinson’s and viral infections. By Dr Sophia Davidson for Pursuit, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) and University of Melbourne. “How many people actually have this disease?” It’s a potentially triggering question at a family BBQ. I had just finished explaining why I’d recently travelled to the US to work on samples from patients with a rare disease called Proteasome Related Autoinflammatory Syndrome (PRAAS). None of my family had ever heard of

Rare Disease Day research on inflammation as seen on The Hippocratic Post.