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How can we make the impossible possible for rare and paediatric disease? Tuesday, 12 October | 9:30-11:00 CEST | Virtual event

The EFPIA Pipeline Review has found that in 2020 alone, around 5,000 clinical trials were initiated to investigate and develop new therapies and vaccines. Almost 50% of treatments in development are…...

EU-AMRI

EU-AMRI new alliance for BBMRI EATRIS and ECRIN

EU-AMRI, the European Alliance of Medical Research Infrastructures, is the new alliance between the European medical research Infrastructures BBMRI, EATRIS and ECRIN. EU-AMRI aims to facilitate the…...

Research Infrastructures

EFGCP/DIA Better Medicines for Children Conference 18 & 19 October 2021:VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

This year the conference will focus on Global Paediatric Development, its challenges and solutions. To this effect, the conference brings together not only distinguished speakers from all around the…...

NIH's Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) course registration is now open

This free, self-paced, online course runs from September 1, 2021 to August 1, 2022. Graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, medical, dental, and pharmacy students, scientists, nurses, and other…...

Communications & Outreach

Regulatory & Ethics

Public Consultation on Good Clinical Trials Collaborative guidance for RCTs

The Good Clinical Trials Collaborative has launched a 6-week public consultation on their guidance for Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), ending 30 September. Visit goodtrials.org to see the…...

ECRAID

Launch of ECRAID

September 14 marked the launch of Ecraid, the European Clinical Research Alliance for Infectious Diseases. Ecraid advances clinical research in the field of infectious diseases through the…...

Infectious diseases

Recommendations from the EDCTP/ECRIN session on clinical trial infrastructure and capacity building in Africa

Together with the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), ECRIN hosted a session at the Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Summit on 17 June 2021. This session brought…...

Worldwide collaboration

Open Call for Abstracts: Genome Editing, Health innovation, and Responsible Regulation

Nordic Permed Law is seeking original research contributions for a symposium on genome editing on 3-4 November 2021 and a subsequent special issue on Genome Editing, Health innovation, and…...

Regulatory & Ethics

Get to know the PERMIT project - ICPerMed video

The PERMIT project is featured in the latest video from the ICPerMed family video series. In this video the clinical research and health economics perspectives are discussed. More specifically, it…...

Communications & Outreach

Personalised Medicine

Job opening for IT Scientist & Project Manager at BBMRI

Our colleagues at the European research infrastructure for biobanking and biomolecular resources, BBMRI-ERIC, have an interesting job opening for an IT-Scientist & Project Manager. The IT Scientist…...

Research Infrastructures

Recap of the Consultation Meeting on Machine Learning in Personalized Medicine

Machine learning and bioinformatics experts from different European countries and representatives from the PERMIT consortium met for an online workshop on 18 June 2021, to discuss the current…...

Personalised Medicine

TRANSVAC2 Open Call for expert services and trainings

Developing a vaccine is a time-consuming and complex process, requiring a combination of specialized skills and technical capacities not readily available at a single organisation. TRANSVAC2,…...

Launch of European Covid-19 trials coordination module website

The coordination module of the EU-funded projects RECOVER1 and EU-RESPONSE2 has launched its website https://covid19trials.eu/en. It centralises information for academics and industry on access to…...

ICTD 2021 a successful virtual event on platform trials

International Clinical Trials Day 2021 (ICTD2021) was hosted by ECRIN and entitled “Platform trials: shift in testing, treatment & collaboration.” Due to the ongoing pandemic, ICTD 2021 was a virtual…...

International Clinical Trial Day

EUPATI Fundamentals Patient Engagement training course

The European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI) organises the EUPATI Fundamentals, a training about patient engagement addressed to professionals in academia and pharmaceutical…...

Kick-off TTV-Guide project

The EU funded project TTV GUIDE TX has kicked-off and looks to establish a tool to quantify the activity of the immune system in kidney transplant patients and thereby reducing infections and organ…...

Clinical trial portfolio

Immune disorders

Urology / Nephrology

Translational development phase in personalised medicine a focus group on in silico preclinical models

Shortly after the successful focus group to explore the industry perspective on preclinical research, the second working session on June 1st assessing the translational development phase looked at in…...

In sillico methods

Personalised Medicine

Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Summit: the clinical trials strategy

The European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN) and the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) are co-hosting a session on The importance of capacity…...

Worldwide collaboration

ECRIN data center certification call 2022

Launch of 2021 Data Centre Certification Call

On 10 June 2021 ECRIN opened its call for applications to its Data Centre Certification programme. ECRIN’s Data Centre Certification programme is ISO 9001:2015 certified and was developed to audit…...

Data Centre Certification

Paediatric Clinical Trial news

PRESS RELEASE: Paediatric Clinical Research Infrastructure Network

Paediatric Clinical Research Infrastructure Network Paris – June 1st 2021 The PedCRIN (Paediatric Clinical Research Infrastructure Network) consortium will host a final event “Fostering International…...

Translational development phase in personalised medicine a focus group with industry.

On May 26th 2021, the first working session organised in the context of PERMIT’s WP5, translational development of patient-stratification processes, was held as a virtual meeting. It analysed the…...

Personalised Medicine

Towards a Health Research and Innovation Cloud – HealthyCloud’s first workshop

The HealthyCloud project organised its first workshop, the Joint Workshop of Strategic Projects for the Health Research & Innovation Cloud on 18 May 2021. The aim of the workshop was to bring…...

Data protection

Data sharing & management

Electronic Health Records

EU SolidAct - a pan-European platform for pandemic research and preparedness

There is an urgent need for rapid and coordinated investigation of new candidate drugs during pandemics. EU-SolidAct is an Adaptive Platform Trial developed to evaluate drug interventions in…...

Clinical trial portfolio

Public Affairs and Quality Manager job openings at BBMRI

Our colleagues at BBMRI-ERIC, the European research infrastructure for biobanking and biomolecular resources, are looking for a Head of Public Affairs based in Graz, Austria and/or Brussels, Belgium:…...

Research Infrastructures

EU-AMRI launch event Brussels

EU-AMRI PORTO DECLARATION on CANCER RESEARCH

EU-AMRI calls for further deployment of high quality infrastructures On 3 May 2021, following the Cancer Research Summit 2021, hosted by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Council, the Porto…...

Research Infrastructures

RESPINE trial completes recuitment

The RESPINE trial completed its recruitment. One hundred and thirteen patients received treatment between March 2019 to April 2021 at 9 clinical trial sites across four different countries (France,…...

Clinical trial portfolio

PedCRIN final event

PedCRIN Final Event: “Fostering International Paediatric Clinical Research”

The PedCRIN final event is getting closer and we would like all the international community involved in paediatric clinical trials to join us. During this three-hour and a half interactive session…...

PedCRIN webinar neonatal trials

PedCRIN Webinar: Practical points to consider for neonatal trials - An introduction to the PedCRIN neonatal tools

Our third webinar will be dedicated to the tools for managing neonatal clinical trials. The speakers are Prof Evelyne Jacqz-Aigrain and Dr Beate Aurich from INSERM (Institut national de la santé et…...

ERIC-Forum elects new Chair

The ERIC Forum announced the election of Francisco Colomer, Director of JIVE ERIC, as the new Chair of the ERIC Forum. Francisco Colomer, with the support of the Executive Board, will be responsible…...

Research Infrastructures

Marketplace for scientific clinical research on Covid-19

ECRIN has launched the Covid-19 Marketplace. This new, online tool aims to facilitate and promote collaboration by providing access to planned and ongoing clinical trials, and to share trial ideas…...

Worldwide collaboration

EOSC-life: half-way there and so much to show for it

EOSC-life published a mid-term achievements brochure to highlight the work that has been accomplished over the first 2 years of the project....

Data sharing & management

ECRIN strategic plan 2021-2023

ECRIN launches 2021-2023 Strategic Plan

ECRIN coordinating clinical research in Europe. This strategy sets out ECRIN’s priorities over the next three years. It defines the six areas of focus for ECRIN and carves out a path to advance our…...

Communications & Outreach

Research Infrastructures

PedCRIN webinar youth engagement trials

PedCRIN webinar: Methods for the engagement of youth and families in paediatric clinical trials-Towards patient-centred studies

Our second session of the PedCRIN webinar series will be focused on patient engagement in clinical research, specifically on the involvement of families and young people. The speakers are Eric…...

PERMIT project header

How many patients does it take to build a robust stratification cohort?

No generic approach for sample size estimation can be made in personalised medicine when designing a stratification cohort. The conclusion is drawn from the first stakeholder consultation by the…...

Personalised Medicine

ECRIN contributes to position paper on the archiving of clinical trial records

The archiving of clinical trial records is a required process linked to legal and regulatory obligations. ECRIN joined EUCROF (the European Contract Research Organisation Federation) and eClinical…...

Regulatory & Ethics

PedCRIN webinar biosamples

PedCRIN Webinar: Tools for the management of paediatric trials: handling biosamples and assessing causality of adverse events

Our first webinar will be dedicated to the tools for managing paediatric trials. The speakers are Viviana Giannuzzi from FGB (Fondazione per la Ricerca Farmacologica Gianni Benzi Onlus) and Cristina…...

Virtual kick-off for HealthyCloud

9 March 2021 marked the kick-off of the HealthyCloud project (Health Research and Innovation Cloud) a 30 month EU Horizon 2020 funded project. The HealthyCloud project aims to define the Strategic…...

Data interoperability

Data protection

Data sharing & management

Electronic Health Records

Kick off of EU-Africa PerMed

The EU-Africa PerMed (Building links between Europe and Africa in Personalised Medicine) project kicked off with a full-day virtual meeting on March 4 2021. This four-year project, funded by the…...

Personalised Medicine

Worldwide collaboration

ECRAID base kick-off

The ECRAID-Base (European Clinical Research Alliance for Infectious Diseases) initial kick-off took place on 2 March 2021 as a virtual meeting. The ECRAID-Base project follows the successful ECRAID…...

Clinical trial portfolio

Infectious diseases

PedCRIN webinar series: An opportunity to discover our tools for the setup and management of paediatric and neonatal clinical trials

The PedCRIN project is coming to a close and we would like to go out big! For this reason, we are launching a webinar series to share some of the most interesting outcomes of the project. The series…...

VACCELERATE kick-off

The official kick-off of VACCELERATE, the European Corona Vaccine Trial Accelerator Platform, was held on March 5 2021. Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon2020 Framework Programme (GA n…...

Two new white papers released by RI-VIS

The RI-VIS project published two white papers on international research infrastructure (RI) collaboration. The first article focuses on the relationship between Latin American and European RIs and…...

Research Infrastructures

1st Data Centre Certification renewal

The ECRIN Data Centre Certification is pleased to share that one of our previously certified data centres, AIBILI, Coimbra (Portugal), received approval by the ICB for certification renewal. The goal…...

Data Centre Certification

Paediatric clinical research in Europe: an insight on experts’ needs and perspectives

This study represents the first wide-ranging experience to investigate the needs of the experts involved in paediatric clinical research. These results document that the achievement of PedCRIN…...

Research Infrastructures

18th Congress of SOFREMIP (Société francophone pour la rhumatologie & les maladies inflammatoires en pédiatrie) 5-6 July 2021 Arcachon, France.

18th Congress of SOFREMIP (Société francophone pour la rhumatologie & les maladies inflammatoires en pédiatrie) will be held on 5-6 july 2021 in Arcachon, France. The congress will be attended by…...

Infectious diseases

EU-RESPONSE launches website

EU-RESPONSE (European Research and Preparedness Network for Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases) launched its website this week: https://eu-response.eu/. This 5-year multi-national project,…...

Communications & Outreach

Infectious diseases

Launch of Pan-European Vaccine Network

The grant agreement for VACCELERATE (European Corona Vaccine Trial Accelerator Platform) was signed in a virtual event today by the European Commission and members of the consortium. VACCELERATE is a…...

Data sharing & management

Korean Data Centre Certified in pilot program

We are pleased to announce that the pilot expansion program of the ECRIN Data Centre Certification certified the Medical Research Collaboration Center (MRCC) at Seoul University Hospital in 2020. The…...

Data Centre Certification

Worldwide collaboration

English website now available - CZECRIN

ECRIN’s national scientific partner in the Czech Republic, CZECRIN, recently launched an , a new motto and a new logo. The new website enables visitors to better understand the research…...

Communications & Outreach

National partner news

Involve Children and Parents in Clinical Studies

In PedCRIN, the (potential) role of children and/or parents is identified through consultations of YPAGs and patient groups by means of a focus group; a group meeting in which clinical studies that…...