Partnerships in Clinical Trials (PCT) Conference will be held in Barcelona 27-29 November and will provide the occasion to discuss the current and future challenges and issues in the clinical research and in particular in early clinical development. The event will foresee the discussion of different topics of interest, from the methodologies to identify and
The Italian Society of Pharmacology (SIF), in collaboration with the University of Trieste and Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a carattere scientifico “Burlo Garofalo” of Trieste, organised the Monothematic Conference “Clinical Trials and off-label in paediatrics: towards the precision medicine” on 26 October 2018 in Trieste (Italy). In the Organizing Committee of the Conference the
We are very pleased to announce that the TEDDY Network will participate as beneficiary in the new Co-fund action, the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJPRD). The main objective of the programme is to create a research and innovation pipeline "from bench to bedside" ensuring rapid translation of research results into clinical applications and
Annagrazia Altavilla, Lawyer and Professor at Espace Ethique Méditerranéen at Aix-Marseille Université, and coordinator of the TEDDY Working group on Ethical Issues in paediatric research, has been invited to be part of the Ethical Advisory Board (EAB) setup within the framework of the European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure (EPTRI). EPTRI is a European funded project
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) have published a joint action plan to support the development of medicines for children in Europe. The action plan addresses challenges identified by the European Commission’s ten-year report on the implementation of the Paediatric Legislation and takes also
On 6th September, the activities of KIDS Albania restarted with a meeting at the Faculty of Technical Medical Sciences of the University of Tirana. This first meeting provided the occasion to discuss the outcomes of the 2018 iCAN Research and Advocacy Summit held on 9-13 July in Edinburgh, which 6 members of KIDS Albania took
On 25 and 26 October 2018, the Joint EFGCP & DIA Conference took place in Brussels and as per tradition was organised by the Children Medicines Working Party of EFGCP (European Forum for Good Clinical Practise) in collaboration with DIA (Drug Information Association) and Regulators. The event was the occasion to take stock of the
KIDS Bari, the first Italian Young Persons Advisory Group (YPAG), has been invited to participate in the SMART Open workshop – Paediatric Foresight Training Course, that will take place in Warsaw on 29 and 30 November 2018. The workshop will be realised in the framework of SMART – Small Medicines Advanced Research Training, a
The TEDDY Network promotes the paediatric pharmacological research as well as adequate health policies, also through the actions of its Working Groups (WGs), addressing the most important needs of the paediatric research and providing open areas of discussion on specific topics of interest in the paediatric field. Considering the high relevance of the topic of
A new version of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) corporate website has been launched in September 2018, providing a number of new features to improve user experience, including: an improved search, allowing users to find content easily and to filter their search results. EMA plans to further refine this functionality in the future; a ‘responsive’