Outrageous prices of orphan drugs: a call for collaboration

Affiliations

• ¹ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
• ² Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ³ Rare Disease Unit, Azienda Socio-Sanitaria Territoriale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
• ⁴ Pharmacy Service, Ospedale Policlinico "GB Rossi", Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, Verona, Italy.
• ⁵ KU Leuven Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁶ Pediatric Nephrology Division, Heidelberg University Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
• ⁸ Genomics and Biomarkers Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁹ IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano, Italy; IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ¹¹ IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Bergamo, Italy; Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, Azienda Socio-Sanitaria Territoriale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy; Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].