Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Ira Walker, the Muscular Dystrophy Association's 2024 National Ambassador, at the MDA's 2024 Clinical & Scientific Conference in Orlando, Florida. Walker, 39, has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 2.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Seema Lalani, MD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Lalani directs Project GIVE (Genetic Inclusion by Virtual Evaluation), a pediatric screening program in the impoverished 4-county Rio Grande Valley region of southern Texas.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Matt Trudeau, head of ITF Therapeutics—a division of Italy's Italfarmaco—on treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy with givinostat, a histone deacetylase inhibitor.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Thomas Holm Pedersen, PhD, cofounder and chief executive of NMD Pharma, a Danish company that's pursuing the use of chloride channel 1 (ClC-1) as a novel target for restoring muscle function in both myasthenia gravis and spinal muscular atrophy.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Courtney Silverthorn, PhD, of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) about the FNIH's Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Cristol Barrett O'Loughlin, founder and CEO of Raregivers—a nonprofit organization that offers mental health and wellness services to those caring for people with rare diseases.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Omar Kamlin, MD, senior medical director at French drugmaker Orphalan, whose therapy, Cuvrior, treats Wilson disease.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Melinda Bachini, chief patient officer at the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation, about a new study detailing the burden on caregivers of people with cholangiocarcinoma.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Kyle Bryant, director of the Ambassador Program at the Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA), and founder and director of rideATAXIA.

Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews Paul Bolno, MD, the CEO of Wave Life Sciences, whose investigational therapy WVE-003 is a potential treatment for Huntington disease.