Over the last years, a Europe-wide trend towards a patient-focused approach and the involvement of patients is developing and is influencing the decision-making process related to the clinical research. Patients involvement in paediatric clinical trials is recognized as an important added value at European and international level and an essential contribution to paediatric clinical research.
On October 24th, 2017 the 4th Medical Infrastructure Users Forum (MIUF) meeting of the H2020-funded CORBEL project will be held in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) to continue the discussion of efficient development and use of bio-medical Research Infrastructures (RIs). CORBEL is an initiative of eleven new biological and medical research infrastructures (BMS RIs), which together will
On May 9th, 2017, the International Paediatric Clinical Trial Day entitled “Helping children create lives they deserve” took place at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. The meeting was organized by AICRO (Associazione Italiana Contract Research Organisation) in collaboration with San Raffaele Hospital, TEDDY Network (European Network of Excellence for Paediatric Clinical Research) and INCiPiT
PedCRIN (The Paediatric Clinical Research Infrastructure Network) is happy to present the first Edition of the quarterly Newsletters, intended to share all Network ongoing initiatives as well as papers and reports on activities involving paediatric research. PedCRIN is a four-year project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme that brings together the European Clinical
The Article “Human metapnuemovirus infections in hospitalized children and comparison with other respiratory viruses. 2005-2014 prospective study”, has been published in PLoS ONE 2017. Among the authors, Cristina Calvo participated in the study on behalf of Hospital Universitario La Paz, a partner of the TEDDY Network. In this publication, the authors described the results of
The Article “Orphan medicinal products in Europe and United States to cover needs of patients with rare diseases: an increased common effort is to be foreseen” has been published on-line in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2017. The publication reports the results obtained by EuOrphan database analysis aimed to evaluate the status of orphan drugs
Also this year, AICRO organises the National Congress dedicated to clinical research, now at its fifth edition. The conference titled "How to Improve Clinical Research in Italy. The Epoch of Doing ", will be held on November 16, 2017 at Spazio Eventi Fontana di Trevi in Rome. The conference will be focussed on several issues
The third conference “TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 2017” organized every two years by EATRIS (European infrastructure for translational medicine) will be held in Prague on September 24th-26th, 2017 and will focus on “Enhancing Predictivity in Medicines Development”. The event will bring together a wide range of experts in translational research by pharma industry, academia, research funders to discuss
AICRO (Associazione Italiana Contract Research Organization) established a working group to define criteria and guidelines for healthcare structures that wish to create an infrastructure supporting clinical trials conduction and all the aspects related to clinical research in general. The working group that drafted these criteria and guidelines includes some of the most important centers, institutions,
As a consequence of the withdrawal from the European Union (EU), UK will become a third country by March 2019 at the latest. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is, therefore, working to relocate its Agency from London to one of the other 27 Member States and to ensure a proper functioning of the single market