DR NICK SIREAU

Dr Nick Sireau is co-founder and Chair of Orchard OCD, a charity that develops new and better treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He is also the CEO and Chair of Trustees at the AKU Society, a patient group that helps people with AKU (short for alkaptonuria), a rare genetic disease affecting both his children. He is co-founder and Chair of Findacure, an organisation that helps many rare disease patient groups. Previously, Nick was the founding CEO of SolarAid, an NGO working in Africa. He is a fellow of the Ashoka Fellowship of Social Entrepreneurs and has a PhD in the social psychology of social movements. He is the editor of ‘Rare Diseases: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Entrepreneurs’ (Greenleaf 2013) and of the ‘Patient Group Handbook: A Practical Guide for Research and Drug Development’ (Findacure 2016). 

Links:

www.orchardocd.org

www.findacure.org.uk

www.akusociety.org

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Nick Sireau, the founder of Orchard, spoke to OLBIOS from London on the lack of funds for OCD research and on how nature reveals its secrets ‘apart from the beaten path’

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