====== International Rare Diseases Research Initiative ======

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The **International Rare Diseases Research Initiative** is a multinational non-governmental organization founded on the basis of developing a "diagnostic tool for every known rare disease by 2020, along with new
therapies to treat 200 of them."((Abbott, A. (2011, April 7). //Rare-disease project has global ambitions.// Nature. https://web.archive.org/web/20220210101901/https://www.nature.com/articles/472017a.pdf?error=cookies_not_supported&code=b8682e6d-2a73-4d75-acc1-1ba113aaca83))