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• Patient and family experiences help advance rare disease research into treatments.
• Behind every breakthrough is a person whose experience helped make it possible.
• Patients and families are at the heart of progress.
• Their stories help transform science into life-changing medicine.
• The Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre advances breakthrough science into treatments.
• The Centre does this by listening to the real experiences of the rare disease community.
• Patient and caregiver stories have helped researchers better model rare neurological diseases in the lab.
• These stories have supported doctors in making critical treatment decisions.