The European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) is an official Partner of the 9th European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products (ECRD 2018) to be held at the Wien Messe Exhibition & Congress Center in Vienna, Austria from 10 to 12 May 2018.

The ninth edition of this important conference for the rare disease community will be organised by EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe, a non-profit alliance of over 700 rare disease patient organisations from more than 60 countries that work together to improve the lives of the 30 million people living with a rare disease in Europe.

The conference is estimated to gather over 800 participants: patient representatives, academics, health care professionals, industry, payers,
regulators and policy makers.

ECRD 2018 will be supported by the EU Public Health Programme and AFMTelethon.