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Clinical trials provide the medical community with valuable research and data that helps to facilitate the development of new and potentially life-saving therapies. By participating in a clinical trial, you are taking an active role in the development and approval of new medicines and treatments. There is a lot to learn about clinical trials –…

Rare Disease Day, which takes place every year on the last day of February, is a global movement aimed at raising awareness of the 7,000+ rare diseases and more than 300 million people worldwide who live with a rare disease. With our deep experience in the rare disease space for more than 25 years and…

Despite living with SMA, there’s not much that Juan hasn’t already achieved.

People living with rare diseases have many strengths, abilities and ambitions. One of them is playing and engaging in sports. This October, the 2023 FIPFA Powerchair Football World Cup is taking place in Sydney, Australia and the world’s best powerchair footballers are coming together to compete for the 2023 trophy. PTC is proud to support…

Powerchair hockey is a team sport played by athletes who require the use of an electric wheelchair in their day-to-day lives. Athletes have disabilities ranging from Muscular Dystrophy or SMA, to cerebral palsy or severe spinal cord injuries. Learn More about the 2022 IWAS Powerchair Hockey World Cup Meet the Swiss National Team

”Your child is severely physically disabled” – after giving this kind of diagnosis, physicians are faced with an important task: to give desperate parents some perspective. Impossible? Not at all! Because even with a severe disability, so much is possible – sometimes even a world championship title. Let yourself be inspired. Sport at the highest…

Powerchair hockey is a team sport played by athletes who require the use of an electric wheelchair in their day-to-day lives. Athletes have disabilities ranging from Muscular Dystrophy or SMA, to cerebral palsy or severe spinal cord injuries. Learn More about the 2022 IWAS Powerchair Hockey World Cup

At PTC Therapeutics, we continue to be inspired by the communities we serve. We are proud to be sponsoring this year’s IWAS Powerchair Hockey World Cup, which is taking place from the 9th – 14th August 2022, in Switzerland. The IWAS Powerchair Hockey World Cup is the most important international competition for powerchair hockey athletes.…