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Obtaining informed consent for neonatal research is challenging. This was confirmed in a survey of paediatric researchers in the context of the PedCRIN project. Therefore, a tool was developed which…...

The Africa-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructure (RI) was held last week, hosted by the RI-VIS project. Partners from both continents got together to discuss opportunities and challenges for RI…...

Delays in conducting and completing paediatric clinical trials are one of the major challenges researchers are facing when developing new medicines for children. The EMA Paediatric Action Plan has…...

The ERIC Forum Annual Meeting took place on January 26-27, 2021 and brought together 21 leading European Research Infrastructures (ERICs). On the first day of the meeting, it was confirmed that the…...

The European Joint Program on rare disease is organising a webinar February 2nd, 2021 3:00 - 4:30PM CET to accompany applicants for the Joint Transnational Call 2021. The Joint Transnational Call…...

TB MED launched a new open call to support medical device developers. This call looks to assist with the Clinical Proof of Concept (CPoC) or clinical investigations with an innovative high-risk…...

We are pleased to announce that two European Data Centres received the ECRIN Data Centre Certification in 2020: DKF Basel and ZKS Köln. The certification of DKF Basel marks the first certification in…...

The SIMCor (In-Silico testing and validation of Cardiovascular Implantable devices) project held its kick-off meeting last week on January 14-15, 2021. The SIMCor project aims to develop an in-silico…...

The PERMIT Project held its third General Assembly meeting on the 15th of January 2021. All consortium members gathered to share the milestones and achievements of the first year, focusing on the…...

In the EU, Horizon2020 funded EOSC life project (GA824087), a toolbox is under development to help researchers finding existing resources that are relevant for the sharing of sensitive data. ...

This month ECRIN data project manager, Steve Canham, published two chapters in the Principles and Practice of Clinical Trials edited by Piantodosi and Meinert and published by Springer. The chapters…...

On December 1 and 2, 2020 the PERMIT project held its Gap Analysis Workshop. This important milestone of the project corresponds to the final phase of the scoping review process that was carried out…...

Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) of Personalised Medicine (PM) were the focus of the recent EULAC PerMed technical workshop and summer school both held virtually in November 2020. The second…...

ECRIN was awarded by the French standards association (AFNOR) the ISO 9001:2015 certification on the 30th of November 2020 for its capacity to provide high-quality operational services. ECRIN has,…...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) have published an article on providing support for medicine development by academics and clinical researchers. The launch of free scientific advice to academia and…...

Pr. Evelyne Jacqz-Aigrain As part of our series of interviews with the PedCRIN Consortium members, we recently had the pleasure of speaking with Prof. Evelyne Jacqz-Aigrain to ask about the role of…...

REMAP-CAP is an Adaptive Platform Trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia. A first video has been launched for a better understanding of the REMAP-CAP trial and how the adaptive platform trial works…...

This November, the Beyond 1 Million Genome project (B1MG), funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 951724, launched a stakeholder…...

We join our colleagues at BBMRI in remembering Gert-Jan van Ommen. At ECRIN we had the chance to collaborate closely with Gert-Jan and enjoy his insightful vision in the CORBEL WP3 where he explored…...

ECRIN joins the European project RECoVER (Rapid European SARS-CoV-2 Emergency Research response) to partake in the expansion of the REMAP-CAP for COVID and lead the European coordination mechanism…...

The General Assembly of the Clinical Research Initiative for Global Health Consortium (CRIGH) went virtual for its 3rd edition. The CRIGH Consortium was launched in October 2016, as a follow-up to a…...

Data sharing in clinical research can be justified on scientific, economic and ethical grounds: it can help to ensure more accurate science, reduce duplication and allow better use of funding as well…...

EOSC-Life (European Open Science Cloud) has launched its first Digital Life Sciences Open Call for projects sharing data, tools and workflows in the cloud. This call offers financial support for projects, to enable life science researchers to connect their research to the cloud, alongside training, advice and assistance from data experts,...

The European Alliance of Medical Research Infrastructures (EU-AMRI) published an article on biomarker research and development for COVID-19 which focuses on the need to coordinate efforts globally and outlines…...

Registration is now open for the EULAC PerMed ELSA Workshop. The workshop aims to share insights on ethical legal and socials issues as they relate to research and implementation of personalised…...

NIHR CypMedTech are delighted to announce the UK’s first conference dedicated to technology for child health and paediatrics, Child Health Technology 2021 (CHT2021) organised by NIHR Children and…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...