The startup using AI to help rare disease families develop custom treatments

Jacalyn Lee, founder of The DAND Alliance, and her youngest daughter Isla.Jacalyn LeeCNBC Cures is proudly underwritten by Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, whose support enables our journalism to elevate stories that advance research, innovation and patient care in rare diseases.Jacalyn Lee first sensed something was off with her daughter, Isla, just before her first birthday."She was just under a year old, and nobody believed me, including the pediatrician," she said.Isla was missing some of the developmental milestones that her sisters had hit at her age. Doctors told Lee that her two other daughters were just advanced, and that she should not be measuring Isla's development against theirs.But by the time Isla was 15 months, Jacalyn had grown more insistent."I said to my husband, because I couldn't go to the pediatrician appointment, 'You do not leave that pediatrician appointment without getting some type of referral for an eval. Something is different, I'm telling you.'"A few months later, Isla was diagnosed with autism. It wasn't until her parents received the results of a genetic test when Isla was 3 years old that they realized the cause of her struggles. Isla was diagnose...