Columns

EDITORIAL: The CF Foundation Deserves Unending Praise For Its $3.3 Billion Royalty Sale

In this week’s editorial column, Cystic Fibrosis News Today’s Stephen Shannon sounds off on the recent news of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation‘s recent $3.3 billion royalty sale involving Vertex’s Kalydeco, the ensuing controversy over the deal in some corners of the media, and why he thinks the venture philanthropy model works. On…

An Undeniable Hope: Recent CF Breakthroughs Show That a Cure Can Be Found

In his first weekly column for Cystic Fibrosis News Today, PhD student and CF patient Stephen Shannon talks candidly about what the ongoing search for a cure for Cystic Fibrosis means to him, and why there is great reason for Hope. I was two years old when I was diagnosed…