Clinical research is key to medical progress, providing the data necessary to develop new treatments, improve outcomes, and offer hope to patients. Nowhere is this hope more urgently needed than in rare disease. In “Overcoming Reach and Recruitment Challenges to Engage Rare Disease Patients in Clinical Trials,” RPV’s Laura Mullen shares results from a recent Rare Patient Voice patient survey on rare disease patients’ awareness of clinical research, and discusses how researchers can be assisted in connecting with hard-to-reach communities and overcoming the unique difficulties involved in engaging rare disease patients in clinical research. Read the article published by Patients as Partners in Clinical Research here: https://theconferenceforum.org/editorial/overcoming-challenges-of-reach-and-recruitment-to-engage-rare-disease-patients-in-clinical-trials