Events

The European Research Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS) is organising its third bi-annual conference, “Translational Medicine 2017” from 24 to 26 September 2017 at Corinthia Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic.

This event, open to a wide range of stakeholders including academic researchers, funders, industry players and regulators, will bring together international experts to discuss the latest advancements in translational medicine.

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The European Chemical Biology Symposium (ECBS) 2017 in Budapest, Hungary, brings together chemical biology researchers from screening and drug discovery, systems biology and therapeutic innovation. Young researchers are encouraged to present their work! Register and find out more: www.ecbs2017.eu/welcome.html

The 4th International Congress of Translational Research in Human Nutrition (ICTRHN) will take place in Clermont-Ferrand, France from 22 to 23 June 2017. The focus this year is on nutrition and cancer. 

The main topics will include: 

• nutritional and metabolic risk factors identified in cancer development
• nutritional care and diet support for the cancer patient during treatment
• breast and prostate cancers – translational approaches

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The CORBEL project will be holding a meeting on 20 June 2017 in Brussels to explore how the 11 participating Biological and Medical Sciences Research Infrastructures (BMS RIs) - including ECRIN - can stimulate innovation in Europe through providing open access to their key assets (e.g. resources, technologies, data and knowledge).

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The University Hospital of Nîmes, the F-CRIN approved Tech4Health service platform and the Education & Training Unit of F-CRIN's Coordination Office are organising the training course "Clinical evaluation of medical

The Clinical and Epidemiological Investigation Centre (CIEC) of the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) is holding the LuxCLIN conference on 'eClinical Research: getting virtual and personal'. The event will take place on Tuesday, 30 and Wednesday 31 May 2017 at Centre Hospitalier Luxembourg (CHL) in Luxembourg.

The detailed program and guidelines for registration can be found on the LuxCLIN conference website

ECRIN's 2017 celebration of International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on 19 May 2017.

The theme of this year’s event is ‘Data sharing and reuse: attitudes and practices in multinational clinical research'. 

The aim is to engage with the public, scientific community and decision makers on issues related to (multinational) clinical trials in Europe, and to address issues related to data sharing and re-use in particular.

University Claude Bernard Lyon - Eudipharm, OrphanDev (part of ECRIN's French national partner, the French Clinical Research Infrastructure Network or F-CRIN), and F-CRIN's training and education unit are co-organising the 4th edition of the training course on 'Orphan drug & rare disease - Accelerating access to therapeutic innovation'.

While the methodology remains the main focus of the programme, this year will also be the opportunity to address in particular the European Medicines Agency (EMA) tools in drug development and the issues around personalised medicine.

The Italian Association of Contract Research Organizations (AICRO) is organising a meeting for International Pediatric Clinical Trial Day on the topic of 'Helping children create lives they deserve'. The event will take place on 9 May 2017 in Milan, Italy at San Raffaele Hospital.

The meeting is being organised in collaboration with San Raffaele Hospital, the TEDDY Network and INCiPiT (the Italian network for paediatric clinical trials).

The European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP) and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) are organising a multi-stakholder workshop on 'Communicating Clinical Trial Results to meet Public Needs - Working towards Implementation of Lay Summaries'. The event will be held on 2 May 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.