Items Tagged ‘Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’
November 25, 2014
Lessons From Disease Advocacy Organizations
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) recently announced that through the sale of the Foundation’s royalty rights to new therapies developed in collaboration with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., they received $3.3 billion dollars. This is an unprecedented amount of money to be raised by a disease advocacy organization through this type of transaction and highlights […]
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