Orphan Drugs May Grow More Common As Medicine Becomes More Personal
Executive Summary
As drug research increasingly focuses on identifying patients who will most benefit from a given therapy, more drugs will qualify for orphan status and companies will be able to take advantage of the economic incentives to develop those drugs
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