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  ARC held its biannual Industry Advisory Council meeting in Boston on March 27th, 2017. The day-long meeting was attended by representatives from pharmaceutical and biotech companies developing new treatments for amyloidosis.  This provided a unique opportunity for these companies...

Rare disease day is on February 28th. The entire week provides a unique opportunity to raise awareness of key policy issues that affect amyloidosis. Patient organizations, NIH and other government entities, medical researchers, and pharmaceutical companies developing treatments for rare...

On December 13th, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Cures Act, a game-changing bill for medical innovation. We are very grateful to Representatives Fred Upton (R-MI) and Diana DeGette (D-CO), as well as members of their staff, for...

The Amyloidosis Research Consortium (ARC) submitted a draft guidance for industry on developing drugs for AL amyloidosis to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to improve the design of clinical trials and accelerate the review of potential therapies. Patients with...

Dale Schenk was born May 10, 1957 in Glendora, California to Walter Bernard Schenk, a firefighter, and Rosemary Schenk, a family therapist. He received an undergraduate degree in biology in 1979 from the University of California at San Diego, where...