Slovakia Celebrates 'ICTD' 2019
The Slovak International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) 2019 took place on May 30th, 2019 in Bratislava with the participation of ECRIN's Director General, Jacques Demotes, and leaders of national infrastructures within V4 countries, i.e. CZECRIN, which is based at the Masaryk University in Brno, HECRIN, based at the University of Pésc in Hungary, and representatives from Poland. Slovakia was represented by the CEO of SLOVACRIN and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of P. J. Safarik University in Kosice prof. Daniel Pella.
The conference was opened by State Secretary of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic Stanislav Spanik.
The direction of Slovakia in the area of support for academic clinical trials and biomedicine was presented by representatives of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic and the State Institute for Drug Control. Several Slovak doctors and researchers presented the benefits of selected academic clinical trials, and in particular cases suggested possible forms of cooperation with SLOVACRIN. At the same time, they expressed their gratitude to the representatives of the Faculty of Medicine for such an initiative.
