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Gary Godsey, President and CEO of the PKD Foundation, explains what resources the Foundation provides for patients and how they're working with researchers to repurpose compounds through the "Accelerating Treatment to Patients” initiative. He encourages listeners to take the 31 Day PKD Challenge as part of National Kidney Month and to join him on Facebook.

Drugs approved with companion diagnostic tests represent the next wave of personalized medicine and have the potential to significantly improve patient outcomes.

Learn about the role biotechnology plays in the on-going fight against HIV/AIDS.

In three minutes, this video tells the pertinent story of how recombinant DNA technology was used to produce human — or synthetic — insulin in large amounts and how it became the first biotechnology treatment approved by the FDA.

The world's best hope for turning breast cancer — and other forms of cancer — into a chronic manageable disease lies within biotechnology.

Underlying the PDUFA V recommendations are the principles that a science-based, transparent, and well-managed review process that appropriately balances benefits and risks can enhance public trust and increase patient access to new medicines.

Since the development of the first vaccine by Edward Jenner in 1796, we have seen tremendous progress in our ability to prevent deadly childhood infections.