Foundations that support efforts to find treatments for rare diseases have stepped in to fill a significant funding gap caused by increasingly conservative venture capitalists and constraints at large pharmaceutical companies. Their considerable financial (in the tens of millions of dollars for many foundations) and intellectual involvement has triggered collaborative translational drug discovery efforts. CHDI Foundation, a virtual biotech exclusively focused on the discovery and development of drugs for Huntington's disease (HD) is one such organization.
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