Science For All Seasons: Zebras and unicorns: Rare maladies and a physician-scientist's search for answers
Roughly one in every ten people around the world suffers from a rare disease—and those are just the ones that researchers and clinicians know about. In this 2017 Science for All Seasons Talk, physician-scientist Anna Greka talked about the steep uphill battles facing rare disease patients when it comes to getting diagnosed and finding treatment options, her own work studying and treating rare kidney diseases, and the insights that rare disease research can provide into treatments for more common disorders.