On 24 October 2019, EUCROF Paediatric Working Group organised a F2F training on “Essentials of paediatric clinical research” held at the Centro Nacional de Invesigaciones Oncológicas in Madrid. The meeting provided the occasion to give an overview of the current regulatory landscape for paediatric research, review specific and most important challenges with corresponding solutions in
On 21 and 22 October 2019, the 4th EPTRI General Assembly Meeting will be held in Warsaw and will be organised in collaboration with the Polish partner, the Children’s Memorial Health Institute. EPTRI (European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure) is aimed to design a new paediatric Research Infrastructure, intended to accelerate paediatric drug development including most
The usual appointment with the European Biobank Week (EBW) this year will be held in Lübeck, Germany, from October 8 until 11. TEDDY European Network of Excellence for Paediatric Clinical Research will be part to the event, presenting a poster entitled “#wecare_ye project: a new EU initiative to promote the paediatric patients engagement”, showing the
On 2th-4th October 2019 Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in partnership with the International Society of Pediatric Innovation (iSPI) will organise the Conference “Shaping the Future of Paediatrics” at Centro Congressi Piazza di Spagna in Rome. The Conference will feature demo sessions on innovation in paediatrics and speeches about 5 main topics: Advances in clinical paediatrics
The recommendations by the Enpr-EMA working group on trial preparedness have now been published and are available at this link. Stakeholders are invited to submit comments to enpremasurveys@ema.europa.eu by 15 November 2019. The document has been linked and highlighted on the EMA’s stakeholder landing pages, and disseminated to relevant EMA contacts. You are encouraged to
Which role should children play in research decisions? Which are the responsibilities of the researchers who invite children and young people to take part in research? These are only two issues addressed by the report released by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, entitled “Children and clinical research: ethical issues” and available at this link. The
The European Commission is preparing for the crucial phases of the implementation of Horizon Europe (HE), the next EU research and innovation programme (2021-2027) with a proposed budget of 100 billion. In view of an intensive co-design approach, the Commission has launched an online consultation to collect inputs from across Europe and beyond about the
c4c (conect4children) is a large collaborative European network that aims to facilitate the development of new drugs and other therapies for the entire paediatric population. In this sense, the voices of children, young people and their families are a pivotal part of the innovative approach of c4c project. It places patients at the centre and
On 25 and 26 November 2019, the First Advanced Therapies Science Meeting (ATSM) will be held in Berlin and will be organised within the framework of the international project RESTORE-Health by Advanced Therapies. The event will provide the occasion to discuss and deepen the current challenges slowing the development of curative treatments and what are
We are glad to inform you that the fourth EPTRI General Assembly meeting will be held on 21st and 22nd October 2019 in Warsaw and will be organised in collaboration with the Polish partner Instytut “Pomnik-Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka (IPCZD)”. EPTRI (European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure) is a project coordinated by CVBF and funded within the