What different diseases have you discovered and aare there any which have become quite well-known?

Question: What different diseases have you discovered and aare there any which have become quite well-known?
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Asked by anon-255204 to Alice on 19 May 2020.
- Alice Burleigh answered on 19 May 2020:
  
  Hi Rory, great question! I have only been working in my current position for less than a year, so haven’t had the chance to discover anything new yet! Usually, uncovering a new disease takes lots of people and time, but hopefully I will find some new and interesting things soon! Because I work in a lab which specialises in rare disease, the diseases we find don’t usually become well known as so few people have them. The diseases often get given very boring names as well, usually describing what is happening in the body which is causing the disease, for example ‘Deficiency of Adenosine Deaminase’ is a disease caused by the patient not having enough of an important protein called Adenosine Deaminase… so I don’t think I’ll ever get the chance to discover an ‘Alice’s disease’!!

Question: What different diseases have you discovered and aare there any which have become quite well-known?