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PERMIT project abstract selected for Cochrane special edition

The PERMIT project aims to build recommendations for robust and reproducible personalised medicine research. A first stage of the project focuses on performing a review of existing literature to map…...

Personalised Medicine

PedCRIN tools

PedCRIN creates a collection of tools for the setup and management of paediatric and neonatal clinical trials

One of the main objectives of PedCRIN project is to train and support researchers and clinicians so they can establish, run and manage both paediatric and neonatal multinational clinical trials in a…...

Further harmonisation of clinical trial regulations to advance research on COVID-19

The need for safe and effective COVID-19 treatments requires the capacity to conduct multinational clinical trials to test and compare existing and new therapies and vaccines. In light of this, the…...

Regulatory & Ethics

CONSORT develops a checklist and guidelines for reporting in randomized platform trials (adaptive design)

The Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) group published an extension for the reporting guidelines which takes into consideration the adaptive design of platform trials. The CONSORT…...

ELSI Services for Life Science research (video)

As modern life science research is happening across scientific disciplines, individual scientists, single labs and across country borders, it often lacks some of the expertise required to address all…...

Communications & Outreach

Research Infrastructures

ERIC-Forum Policy Brief: Funding models for access to ERIC multinational/transnational services

ERIC-Forum published a brief, entitled “Funding models for access to ERIC multinational / transnational services” which focuses on the funding instruments that allow ERICs to provide access to…...

Research Infrastructures

Joint Statement on Horizon Europe Cancer Mission

Every European citizen is affected by cancer, either directly or indirectly. In that perspective The European Commission wrote the interim report ‘Conquering Cancer: Mission Possible’, aiming to…...

Research Infrastructures

EFGCP & DIA Better Medicines for Children Conference - 12&13 Oct. 2020:VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Active engagement of conference participants is expected to discuss challenges and identify solutions on what could be done to optimise children’s access to new medicines: What data sources and…...

EU-RESPONSE, a new tool in ECRIN’s arsenal to fight COVID-19

The launch of EU-RESPONSE, a 5-year, €15,7M multinational project, funded by the European Unions’ Horizon 2020 research and innovation program for the design and implementation of a new European…...

Clinical trial portfolio

Open call for MedTech SMEs looking at solutions for COVID19

Three Open Innovation Testbed (OITB) projects TBMED, MDOT and SAFE-N-MEDTECH are working together to provide services to accompany innovators with their solutions to fight COVID-19. The COVID-19…...

New recommendations on clinical trial preparedness in paediatrics

The EMA published new recommendations on clinical trial preparedness in paediatrics in August 2020, a result of a European Network of Paediatric Research (Enpr-EMA) working group. These…...

Joint response from LS RIs and patient advocates on European data spaces

The Life Science Research Infrastructures and Patients’ Associations have published a joint response to the public consultation on common European data spaces: Facilitating health research and…...

Research Infrastructures

EULAC PerMed workshop ELSI

EULAC PerMed ELSI workshop on Personalized Medicine

The EULAC-PerMed project will be hosting a virtual, technical workshop on Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects in Personalised Medicine in Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The workshop…...

Personalised Medicine

CORBEL's achievements and next steps

CORBEL (Coordinated Research infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services) was a four-year and nine months Research and Innovation Action funded in September 2015 by the European…...

SCTO tools for Clinical Trials

SCTO develops three new tools for clinical research

In line with the Swiss Clinical Trial Organisation’s (SCTO) primary objective to catalyse valuable, innovative, and visible clinical research in Switzerland, eight thematic platforms were established…...

National partner news

Protocol for the PedCRIN funded POPART trial has been published

The protocol for the PedCRIN funded POPART trial has been published. Full article...

European Lifescience Research Infrastructures against COVID19

ECRIN is part of the European Life Science Research Infrastructures, together with the other research infrastructures and partners we address global challenges, such as fighting diseases with finding…...

Communications & Outreach

Research Infrastructures

ECRIN partner in TRANSVAC-DS

Vaccination is one of the most effective public health tools available to humanity, and the importance of vaccines has been highlighted by the COVID-19 crisis as never before. Acknowledging the…...

Belgium and the Netherlands launch call for proposals for clinical trials

The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) and ZonMw, the Dutch organisation for health research and care innovation, are continuing their collaboration, and in October will again call on the…...

Survey on Clinical Trials during the Pandemic

Good Clinical Trials Collaborative is running a survey to understand the impact of the pandemic on randomised clinical trials and in the experiences of those working on clinical trials over these…...

TMex 2020 - Translational Medicine explained

The TMex Winter School 2020 edition consists of a 5-day online workshop. The course is intended for PhD students in the second half of their PhD, early postdocs and other young scientists involved in…...

Research Infrastructures

Free EMA scientific advice for academia developing medicines for rare diseases

A news article has been published on the EMA (European Medicine Agency) website stating that academia developing medicines for rare diseases can receive free EMA scientific advice. To further…...

Regulatory & Ethics

Revised version of DSpace demonstrator paper published in F1000 Research

In April 2020 we published an article on F1000research regarding the assessment of a demonstrator repository for individual clinical trial data built upon DSpace. There is now a revised version…...

Communications & Outreach

Data interoperability

Data protection

Data sharing & management

A comprehensive document on platform trials is now available

The domain of EU-PEARL’s research, Integrated Research Platforms (IRPs) and platform trials is relatively new and consequently the vocabulary is still work in progress. Hence, the need to develop a…...

Clinical Research Metadata Repository for clinical trials

Metadata Repository available for all clinical research

The Clinical Research Metadata Repository is the online tool to help scientific researchers find documents and data linked to a clinical research study, and to obtain information on the accessibility…...

ECRIN in European Life Science Research Infrastructures (video)

ECRIN is part of the European Life Science Research Infrastructures, together with the other research infrastructures and partners we address global challenges, such as fighting diseases with finding…...

Communications & Outreach

Research Infrastructures

The WE Study sponsor: St. Olavs University Hospital Norway

St. Olavs Hospital (Trondheim University Hospital) is the sponsor of the WE study funded by the PedCRIN project and it has benefited from PedCRIN services for the expansion of the WE study into other…...

Communications & Outreach

TransVac2 Call for Vaccine development

TRANSVAC2 Open Call for the vaccine R&D pipeline

Good news for those who are developing a vaccine: The new TRANSVAC TNA 2006-09 is now open and will last until August 5th. TRANSVAC2 offers technical services at all stages of the vaccine R&D…...

ECRIN joins the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition

ECRIN has joined the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition in order to help building collaborative solutions to the crisis on COVID19 in low-resource settings. The COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition…...

Worldwide collaboration

ECRIN part of Life Sciences Research Infrastructures (video)

As modern life science research is happening across scientific disciplines, individual scientists and single labs often lack some of the expertise required to address all aspects of a research…...

Communications & Outreach

Research Infrastructures

B1MG project (Beyond One Million Genomes) launched

The project’s purpose is to support the implementation of the declaration of cooperation ‘Towards access to at least 1 million sequenced genomes in the EU by 2022, known as the ‘1+ Million Genomes’…...

Data interoperability

Data sharing & management

Interview with PedCRIN consortium member Eric Vermeulen (VSOP, The Netherlands)

As part of our series of interviews with the PedCRIN Consortium members, we had the pleasure to speak with Eric Vermeulen to ask about the role of the Dutch Patient Organization for Rare and Genetic…...

EU-AMRI consultation Covid19

Five practical steps to accelerate COVID-19 research

In the combined efforts to find a cure and a vaccine for COVID-19, time is precious and stakes are high, and research funding must be spent wisely. Until now no university or country has beaten COVID…...

International Clinical Trials Day

May 20th is the International Clinical Trials Day, a special day to remind and to celebrate that James Lind started the first randomized clinical trials on 12 sailors with scurvy on board of his ship…...

International Clinical Trial Day

ECRIN promotes a Pan-European COVID-19 clinical research network

As the world is changing due to the COVID-19 situation, evidence based medicine is more than ever needed and well designed, scientifically and ethically sound clinical trials are necessary to provide…...

EULAC PerMed Newsletter

ECRIN is partner in the EULAC PerMed project, and the second newsletter on the project has just been send out. It contains exciting news about the EULAC PerMed project and the activities carried out…...

Communications & Outreach

Worldwide collaboration

University College Dublin

Interview with the POPART Trial sponsor: University College Dublin (UCD) University

University College Dublin is the sponsor of the POPART trial funded by the PedCRIN project and it has employed PedCRIN services for the expansion of the POPART trial into other European countries …...

Extra information on COVID-19 clinical trials online

The COVID-19 Taskforce has extended and updated the available COVID-19 pages on the ECRIN website. The COVID-19 pages now contains information on: Clinical Trial Metadata Repository COVID-19…...

Communications & Outreach

PERMIT project: Main research methodologies for personalised medicine research

The PERMIT project has been focusing on a scoping review that will identify the main research methodologies for personalised medicine research. What are the main methodologies used in personalised…...

Personalised Medicine

Clinical Research Metadata Repository launched

The COVID-19 crisis requires researchers to join forces worldwide to find a cure and a vaccine. Sharing research data is a critical step in this global cooperation effort. ECRIN has launched a…...

Communications & Outreach

New website PolCRIN launched

The Polish Clinical Research Infrastructure Network, PolCRIN, has launched their new website at www.polcrin.abm.gov.pl. With the new website the Polish partner from ECRIN created a digital platform…...

Communications & Outreach

National partner news

Interview with Joana Claverol Torres PedCRIN consortium member (FSJD, Spain)

As part of our series of interviews with the PedCRIN Consortium members, we had a pleasure to speak with Joana Claverol Torres to ask about the role of Sant Joan de Déu Research Foundation (FSJD) in…...

Communications & Outreach

International Clinical Trials Day 2020 cancelled

Due to the current situation with the coronavirus, the International Clinical Trials Day 2020 in Berlin have been cancelled. The next International Clinical Trials Day will be held on May 27th 2021…...

International Clinical Trial Day

TRANVAC2 Open call for Transnational access services

TRANSVAC2, an European Vaccine Research and Development Infrastructure, supports innovation and accelerates vaccine development by offering high-quality technical services across the R&D pipeline to…...

ECRIN Covid-19 Task Force

ECRIN launches COVID-19 taskforce

The world is confronted with the COVID-19 crisis, and all working in healthcare systems taking care of patients have the highest priority. Behind the scenes all forces are joined to support those…...

Research Infrastructures

New Publication: 'Involve Children and Parents in Clinical Studies'

An article related to PedCRIN's work has recently been published in Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) entitled 'Involve Children and Parents in Clinical Studies'. The article highlights the…...

ERIC Forum Meeting in Brussels Addresses Progress Made and Activities for the Future

The ERIC Forum met for its annual meeting from 5-6 February 2020 in Brussels. Representatives from all ERICs (European Research Infrastructure Consortia), including ECRIN, attended. Participants…...

Research Infrastructures

EU Commission Call: Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health response to the 2019-nCoV epidemic

The European Commission has issued an emergency request for expressions of interest for research projects that will advance understanding of the coronavirus epidemic and contribute to a more…...

Press Release: The ERIC Forum Announces New Chair and Vice Chair

The ERIC Forum, which brings together 21 leading European Research Infrastructures, has a new leadership. The aim of the ERIC Forum is to advance operations of ERICs and to strategically contribute…...

Research Infrastructures

Data Center Certification Seoul South Korea

MRCC Data Management Centre Audit in Seoul, South Korea

As part of its Data Management Centre Certification programme, ECRIN conducted an initial audit of the Medical Research Collaboration Center (MRCC) at Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul,…...

Data Centre Certification