The History of M4RD

Medics4RareDiseases is a registered charity driving an attitude change towards rare diseases amongst medical students and doctors in training.

The organisation began as Barts and The London Society for Rare Diseases in 2011 and became a national project in 2013 as Students4RareDiseases with the help of The LSD Collaborative who were awarded the Sanofi Genzyme PAL Award.

On Rare Disease Day 2018 we rebranded to Medics4RareDiseases and have continued to deliver a number of exciting projects working closely with patients, industry specialists, medical schools and rare disease advocates.

Our board includes three doctors and original founders of the Barts society as well as a rare disease patient.