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Professor Haluk Topaloglu from the Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, will be one of the keynote speakers at the 5-th National Conference for Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs. Professor Topaloglu’s research interests include paediatric neuromuscular disorders, neurogenetics, and developmental aspects in child neurology. He is currently Turkey’s representative to the European Science Foundation’s (ESF) Medical Research Group (EMRC). Haluk has served as the secretary of the World Muscle Society (WMS) since 2002. He will provide a presentation on “Treatment efforts in Duchenne muscular dystrophy” at the conference. For more information, please visit the official website of the conference: www.conf2014.raredis.org.