Sarc Fighter: Living with Sarcoidosis and other rare diseases

Episode 125 | All about our session with the FDA as the Sarc community makes its case.

Sarc Fighter: Living with Sarcoidosis and other rare diseases

Show Notes

In Episode 125 of the FSR Sarc Fighter Podcast, a look into the great success of the Externally Led Patient Focused Drug Development Meeting with the FDA. John co-hosted the meeting with Mary McGowan, the CEO of the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research as you - the sarcoidosis community joined in to share your stories with the FDA to let the policy and decision makers know what you are dealing with. How hard it is to live with this disease and how few medicines are available to treat it. The meeting happened Monday, October 28th in Washington, D.C.. In this episode of the podcast I'll give you a look behind the scenes as months of work came together in just a couple of days for a fantastic presentation to the FDA. #sarcoidosis

Show notes Watch the Externally-Led Patient Focused Discussion before the FDA: https://www.stopsarcoidosis.org/pfdd/ Support Mark Steier's wife, Caeleigh: https://stopsarcoidosis.rallybound.org/2024-team-rally-for-sarc/Team/View/193889/Team-Sarc-Mark

MORE FROM JOHN: Cycling with Sarcoidosis http://carlinthecyclist.com/category/cycling-with-sarcoidosis/ Biking 4 Boomers on Tic Tok. https://www.tiktok.com/@biking.4.boomers Do you like the official song for the Sarc Fighter podcast? It's also an FSR fundraiser! If you would like to donate in honor of Mark Steier and the song, Zombie, Here is a link to his KISS account. (Kick In to Stop Sarcoidosis) 100-percent of the money goes to the Foundation. https://stopsarcoidosis.rallybound.org/MarkSteier The Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research https://www.stopsarcoidosis.org/ Donate to my KISS (Kick In to Stop Sarcoidosis) fund for FSR https://stopsarcoidosis.rallybound.org/JohnCarlinVsSarcoidosis?fbclid=IwAR1g2ap1i1NCp6bQOYEFwOELdNEeclFmmLLcQQOQX_Awub1oe9bcEjK9P1E My story on Television https://www.stopsarcoidosis.org/news-anchor-sarcoidosis/ email me [email protected]

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