We’ll all be patients one day | Onno Faber | TEDxSanFrancisco

Although rare diseases sound uncommon, they’re more widespread than you would expect. 1 in 10 Americans are affected by such conditions. In this inspiring talk, Dutch entrepreneur Onno Faber shares the origins of his mission to accelerate the development of treatments for rare diseases. In 2014, Faber was diagnosed with NF2, a rare genetic disease that affects only 1 in 30,000 people. Instead of feeling defeated after learning of the diagnosis, he sprung into action and founded his company RDMD to make treatments for such diseases more accessible. Filmed at TEDxSanFrancisco: Dare To Know on October 3rd, 2019, at the Herbst Theatre.