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 common understanding and usage of terminology beyond EU-PEARL.

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 of those results.

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 cures and vaccins.

Good news for those who are developing a vaccine: The new TRANSVAC TNA 2006-09 is now open and will last until August 5th.

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.

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 question.

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’ initiative (1+MG).

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-19, despite the 3,4K COVID-19 clinical studies underway.

May 20th is the International Clinical Trials Day, a special day to remind and to celebrate that 

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 this evid

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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 so far:

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:

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 medicine research? What are the existing needs for standards?

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.

The Polish Clinical Research Infrastructure Network, PolCRIN, has launched their new website at