Industry Intelligence

Insights from the frontier of rare disease.

Regulatory analysis, drug repurposing case studies, and market intelligence — written by the team building computational tools for orphan drug discovery.

Platform Validation

We Ranked Sirolimus #4 Out of 1,170 Drugs for HGPS. Here's What Clinical Science Found After.

Our computational screen independently ranked the correct drug family in the top 0.3% of 1,170 candidates — without access to downstream clinical data. Here's what four independent studies found.

April 20, 2026 · 6 min read
Drug Repurposing Case Studies

Sildenafil: From Heart Failure to Pulmonary Hypertension to the Pediatric Question

A failed angina drug became Viagra, then Revatio, then the most-prescribed off-label treatment in pediatric pulmonary hypertension. Three lessons from 30 years of one molecule's regulatory journey.

April 16, 2026 · 11 min read
ORPHERA Updates

Inside an OrphanRegPath Report: Walking Through Sirolimus × HGPS

A regulatory pathway analysis is only useful if you understand what each section actually answers. We walk through a real OrphanRegPath report — Sirolimus repurposed for progeria — section by section.

April 16, 2026 · 11 min read
Regulatory Intelligence

The 2026 Orphan Drug Reset: What Catalyst Fix Changes for Repurposing

Congress quietly reversed a five-year-old ruling that crashed orphan drug approvals by 56%. For repurposing companies, previously blocked territory just reopened — and the FDA's retroactive audit creates a narrow window of strategic value.

April 16, 2026 · 10 min read
Rare Disease Market Insights

Why 400 Patients ≠ a Small Problem: The Time-Value Economics of Ultra-Rare Disease

Patient count is a misleading metric for disease burden. When measured in life-years lost, 400 progeria patients carry the same burden as 7,800 pancreatic cancer deaths.

April 16, 2026 · 8 min read