Entries by IPOPI

Meet the winners of the PID Champion Awards 2022

  Award winners, finalists and presenters. From the left: Bruce Lim, Prof Surjit Singh, Jessie Qu, Dr Nahla Erwa, Martine Pergent, Otilia Stanga, Christine Jeffery At every Global Patients’ Meeting, the IPOPI community comes together to celebrate the PID Champion Awards. On October 13, during a sparkling award ceremony, people whose actions have contributed positively […]

Introducing IPOPI’s new Board of Directors

The new Board of Directors of IPOPI was recently elected by IPOPI’s National Member Organisations, and the results were announced during the Annual General Assembly at the Global Patients’ Meeting on October 14, 2022, in Gothenburg. IPOPI is delighted to congratulate Martine Pergent (France), Otilia Stanga (Romania) and Whitney Ayoub Goulstone (Canada) for being elected […]

AGORA: New consortium for improved gene therapy access in Europe

IPOPI was pleased to represent the PID patients’ community at the first meeting of the AGORA (Access to Gene therapies fOr RAre disease) consortium. The new consortium, launched on September 22, aims to facilitate access to gene therapies for patients with ultra-rare diseases, in Europe. The meeting was held at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital […]

IPOPI welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on Substances of Human Origin

The International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies (IPOPI) welcomes the European Commission proposal for a Regulation on standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin (SoHO) intended for human application published in July 2022. IPOPI is pleased that this proposal effectively provides: recognition of the importance of patient safety and the need for […]