Who We Are
Our Work
The N=1 Collaborative is an international network of experts working together to bring individualized treatments to rare disease patients. We are initially focused on the use of antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) as they are rapidly customizable. Through our efforts with ASOs, we are establishing a standardized framework for individualized medicine that will extend to other customizable platform technologies such as siRNAs, RNA therapeutics, and CRISPR as well.
Multidisciplinary collaboration was vital to making the earliest individualized medicines – milasen, jacifusen, and afinersen – possible. This collaborative ethos continues to be necessary in order to learn and improve.
Case Conferences & Seminar Series
The N1C Seminar Series will host leading experts in the field to advance important conversations in the personalized medicine space. We feature speakers from academia, industry, and people directly affected by rare disease. The format varies from research talks, to case conferences, to panel discussions. The talks are always open to the entire N1C community, with time allotted for Q&A. If you have ideas or requests for additional topics, please reach out to Erin McConnell at info@n1collaborative.org.
See our Upcoming and Past series here.
Workgroups
Special focus workgroups have been formed to address important topics critical to the development of individualized medicines. The current workgroups are listed below, with more to come.
Patient Identification
We are developing and disseminating guidance on identifying patients that may be amenable to experimental individualized ASO intervention.
Watch the Workshop Recording
Preclinical Design
We are promoting standards and advancing the science of ASO design and testing.
Watch the Workshop Recording
Data Coordination
We are establishing databases to make sharing of preclinical and clinical learnings across individualized ASO treatments more efficient. By reducing the barriers to this type of sharing, we can learn and improve.
Clinical Outcome Measures
We are developing unified approaches to capturing clinical outcome measures and safety signals.
Watch the Workshop Recording
Institutional Implementation
We are sharing experiences and creating standardized templates and resources helpful to academic investigators and medical centers running individualized clinical trials.
View Collaborative Resources or Watch Workshop Recordings