Wall Street still sees an up­side for rare dis­ease drug de­vel­op­ment as FDA looks to fill knowl­edge gaps

It’s full steam ahead for rare dis­ease drug de­vel­op­ment as both the FDA and Wall St. an­a­lysts sig­naled in­creas­ing in­ter­est of late.

The FDA on Fri­day sought to fur­ther pro­pel the bur­geon­ing space with a new re­quest for com­ment un­der its Ac­cel­er­at­ing Rare dis­ease Cures Pro­gram, and SVB Se­cu­ri­ties an­a­lysts said in a note on to­day that rare dis­ease drugs re­main “at­trac­tive” to in­vestors.

With an aim to ac­cel­er­ate the avail­abil­i­ty of safe and ef­fec­tive treat­ments for rare dis­eases, the FDA says it wants to bet­ter un­der­stand and ad­dress knowl­edge gaps in the de­vel­op­ment process.

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