The Harvard Medical School is releasing a series of educational videos covering the COVID-19 pandemic. This initiative started on April 2020 and was designed especially for physicians, nurses and other health care providers. COVID-19 continues to change many aspects of clinical management and health care, for this reason Harvard Medical School (HMS) is providing
An early announcement of the joint transnational call 2021 has been published on EJP RD website. In order to improve healthcare system and ordinary life of people that live with rare diseases, this call has the aim to encourage research on Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Of high relevance during the call, as it can
The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) has developed, together with a working group led by EURORDIS, named Patient Engagement in Biomedical Research Projects (PENREP), a short guide on Patient Partnership in rare disease research projects. The main goal of this project, as stated in the guide, is to encourage a prolific and
The Clinical Trials Europe is the Europe's largest event dedicated to streamlining clinical trials and improving patient outcomes. The 2020 Edition will take place virtually on 2-4 November due to covid-19 pandemic. The agenda will foresee 6 conference streams and 2 plenaries that will provide the occasion to bring together collaborative stakeholders, key associations dedicated
The Committee for Orphan Medicinal Product (COMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will organise a Workshop on support for orphan medicines development on 30 November 2020. The virtual event aims to encourage early and efficient interactions with the regulators by highlighting pre-marketing support in medicine development in rare diseases. Existing tools such as orphan
The XIII Foresight Training Course (FTC) will be held virtually on 23 October 2020. Annually, Fondazione Gianni Benzi organises the Foresight Training Course (FTC), a short international course aimed to promote pharmacological research and innovation. This year, due to the COVID-19 restrictions enforced, the XIII FTC will run virtually in a shorter version and will
EPTRI the new establishing European Research Infrastructure entirely dedicated to paediatric research and coordinated by Consorzio per Valutazioni Biologiche e Farmacologiche (CVBF), has successfully submitted the application to be included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2021, on the 9th of September. The inclusion of EPTRI in the Roadmap will be of great relevance as it will
Annagrazia ALTAVILLA, Chair of TEDDY, has been appointed as consultant/expert of the Council of Europe - Bioethics Division, within the new DH -BIO Strategic Action Plan on Human Rights and Technologies in Biomedicine (2020-2025). This plan provides specific considerations on children and paediatric population, underlining that important human rights challenges are also emerging through established
The European medicines regulatory network (EMRN) represents a unique response to the challenge of regulating human and veterinary medicines across a diverse group of countries. It includes the national competent authorities (NCAs) of the 27 EU Member States plus those of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and also come together under the aegis of the Heads
The upcoming Clinical Trial Regulation requires the development and dissemination of Lay Summaries of clinical study results from commercial and non-commercial sponsors. However, there is no guidance for all types of sponsors on how best to handle the development process of Lay Summaries and how best to ensure reliable dissemination so that the ultimate goals