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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…...

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 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…...

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…...

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 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…...

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…...

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’…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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 …...

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…...

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…...

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…...