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Projects

c4c Call for Proposals

c4c are pleased to announce the launch of the call for proposals, under the IMI Joint Undertaking call 10 initiative, of clinical trials of medicinal products (CTIMPs) that will answer focused…...

Calls

Paediatric

The WE Study: Finding a way to palliate the symptoms of Cerebral Palsy in children

WE-study "Walking Easier with cerebral palsy" is one of the PedCRIN funded trials. The main objective of this trial is to investigate whether injections with BoNT-A in the calf muscles make walking…...

Neuroscience

Paediatric

The POPART Trial: Reducing endotracheal intubation in preterm babies with respiratory failure

The POPART Trial "Prophylactic Oropharyngeal Surfactant for Preterm infant Trial" is one of the PedCIRN funded trials. The main objective of this trial is to study whether administering the…...

Clinical trial portfolio

Paediatric

Pneumology

Interview with Prof. Torstein Vik: WE Study (Walking Easier with cerebral palsy)

Prof. Torstein Vik Torstein Vik, Professor of Paediatrics from the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s and Women’s Health at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), is a…...

Clinical trial portfolio

Interview

Neuroscience

Paediatric

EMMRI: Take the opportunity to improve your managerial skills

The Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures (EMMRI) is an international management development programme tailored to the specific needs of Research Infrastructures. This Programme…...

Research Infrastructures

Training

Publication from SCTO, ECRIN's partner

Swiss Clinical Trial Organisation have published about impact of clinical trial units on the value of clinical research in Switzerland. Click to access the article....

National partner news

CORBEL launches 2nd Open Call for research projects

The CORBEL Open Call invites researchers to apply to access technologies and services from more than 20 facilities from 10 different research infrastructures across Europe, including ECRIN. Selected…...

Calls

Research Infrastructures

Czech Republic 3rd National Clinical Trial Days - Praha - 22nd May 2018

CZECRIN invites you to the 3rd National Clinical Trials Day in Praha, at the Senat PCR, on 22nd May 2018 from 9:30. The conference held under the auspices of the Vice-chairman of the COMMITTEE ON…...

International Clinical Trial Day

National partner news

CORBEL 2nd Open Call

CORBEL just launched its 2nd Open Call: Within this call 10 different biomedical Research Infrastructures provide services combining their technologies and scientific expertise to support advanced…...

Calls

Research Infrastructures

International Clinical Trials Day 2018 - 15th May, 2018, Budapest, Hungary

On May 15, 2018, ECRIN (European Clinical Infrastructure Network) and its scientific partner HECRIN organize the annual International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) at the Budapest Academy of Sciences…...

International Clinical Trial Day

Event

Communications & Outreach

CRIGH General Assembly: 7-8th March, 2018, Tokyo

The first CRIGH General Assembly took place in Tokyo on March 7-8th, 2018; inspiring presentations and constructive discussions paved the way for the new roadmap and future actions! The second CRIGH…...

Research Infrastructures

Worldwide collaboration

SGP and SwissPedNet are launching a call for project proposals in paediatric health services research

The call launched by the Swiss Society of Paediatrics (SGP) and the Swiss Research Network of Clinical Pediatric Hubs (SwissPedNet) is intended to bring together paediatricians in primary health care…...

Calls

National partner news

Paediatric

HECRIN Receives Funding for Project on ‘Establishing and Internationalizing the Thematic Network for Clinical Research’

The Hungarian Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (HECRIN), ECRIN’s Hungarian national scientific partner, received 1.5 billion HUF (4.5 million euros) from the Ministry of Education for the…...

Communications & Outreach

National partner news

News on EU Regulations

New EU Regulation on Medical Devices The European Commission published the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) 2017/745 on 5 May 2017 in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). The MDR will…...

Medical devices

Regulatory & Ethics

Addendum to Guideline for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Now in Effect

The Guideline for good clinical practice E6(R2) Step 5 was adopted by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on 14 June 2017. It includes an addendum, which was introduced mainly to cope with new…...

ELSI

News

EU Clinical Trial Regulation Update

The EU Clinical Trial Regulation implementation was foreseen in October 2018. Due to technical difficulties with the development of the IT systems, the portal’s go-live date has to be postponed. The…...

News

Regulatory & Ethics

Interview with Jacques Demotes on the MiRoR Website

ECRIN's Director General, Jacques Demotes, is featured in an interview with the Methods in Research on Research (MiRoR) project, an innovative joint doctoral training programme project in which ECRIN…...

Communications & Outreach

Interview

Training

Good Clinical Practice Inspectors Working Group (GCP IWG) Meeting

ECRIN's Quality Manager attended the GCP IWG joint meeting with interested parties on topics related to e-source data / electronic data capture (EDC) tools in clinical trials, held on 12 June 2017 at…...

ELSI

Event

News

Collaboration with Estonia

ECRIN's Director General, Jacques Demotes, visited colleagues in early June at the Medical Faculty and University Hospital of Tartu and the Ministry of Health in Tallinn, Estonia. They expressed…...

Communications & Outreach

Swiss Clinical Trial Organisation (SCTO) Symposium 2017 on 'Adding Value in Clinical Research'

ECRIN participated in a conference of the SCTO (its Swiss national partner) on 'Adding Value in Clinical Research', held on 1 June 2017 at University Hospital Basel....

Event

National partner news

2017 Call for Applications to Become a Certified ECRIN Data Centre Now Launched

Applications are now being accepted for ECRIN’s Data Centre Certification programme, 2017 call. Eligible applicants include clinical trial units (CTUs) within the national networks of ECRIN member…...

Calls

Data Centre Certification

Activities in Data Sharing: Vivli, the Center for Global Clinical Research Data, is Seeking an Executive Director

VIVLI is a non-profit organisation that aims to promote, coordinate, and facilitate clinical research data sharing through the creation and implementation of a sustainable global data-sharing…...

Data sharing & management

News

New publication: 'Global health: Boost multinational clinical research'

ECRIN has contributed to a 'Correspondence' article in the journal Nature about the Clinical Research Initiative for Global Health (CRIGH) titled 'Global health: Boost multinational clinical research…...

Research Infrastructures

Worldwide collaboration

International Pediatric Clinical Trial Day: Helping children create lives they deserve

The Italian Association of Contract Research Organizations (AICRO) is organising a meeting for International Pediatric Clinical Trial Day on the topic of 'Helping children create lives they deserve'…...

Event

Paediatric

EMA Publishes Framework and Action Plan for Closer Interaction

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has developed a framework to formalise, structure and further develop interactions with the academic community in the context of the European medicines regulatory…...

ELSI

News

Regulatory & Ethics

CORBEL 'Medical Infrastructure / Users Forum' (MIUF) Survey Report

The 'Medical Infrastructure / Users Forum' (MIUF) of the H2020-funded CORBEL project developed a survey in 2016 to assess the needs and expectations of medical research communities and the users of…...

News

Research Infrastructures

Press release: International Clinical Trials Day Conference on Data Sharing and Reuse

PARIS – The European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN) is pleased to announce that its 2017 celebration of International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) will take place in Lisbon, Portugal…...

Data sharing & management

International Clinical Trial Day

National partner news

New publication: 'Raising standards in clinical research – The impact of the ECRIN data centre certification programme, 2011–2016'

ECRIN has published an article on 'Raising standards in clinical research – The impact of the ECRIN data centre certification programme, 2011–2016' (published in Contemporary Clinical Trials…...

Communications & Outreach

Data Centre Certification

Launch of PedCRIN Call for Multinational Paediatric Clinical Studies

ECRIN has launched a call for pilot clinical studies to receive trial management support from the Paediatric Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (PedCRIN) project. The goal is to support the…...

Calls

Paediatric

Press release: Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS Coordinates a European Project to Obtain a Functional Cure for HIV with Immunotherapy

The August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) and the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona lead a European project aimed at changing the current paradigm of HIV treatment by obtaining a…...

Clinical trial portfolio

Immune disorders

Infectious diseases

RISCAPE Project Launched

The RISCAPE kick-off meeting was held in Helsinki from 30 to 31 January 2017. The event brought together 25 representatives from 11 different European Research Infrastructures (RIs), including ECRIN,…...

Research Infrastructures

Three New Spanish-Coordinated Clinical Trials Launched

ECRIN is providing trial management support to three new projects coordinated by Spain: LIVERHOPE, HIVACAR, and ORTHOUNION. LIVERHOPE aims to evaluate a novel therapeutic strategy for patients with…...

Clinical trial portfolio

Hepatology / gastroenterology

Immune disorders

Infectious diseases

National partner news

Press release: Towards better medicines for children: PedCRIN project builds research infrastructure

PARIS (31 January 2017) – The European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN) has announced the launch of the Paediatric Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (PedCRIN). The three-year…...

Paediatric

Research Infrastructures

The Clinical Research Initiative for Global Health (CRIGH) Officially Launched

The Clinical Research Initiative for Global Health (CRIGH) was officially launched on January 1st, 2017. CRIGH aims to serve as a support structure for international collaboration on clinical…...

Research Infrastructures

Worldwide collaboration

New Clinical Trials and Capacity Building Projects in 2016

New Clinical Trials In 2016, ECRIN received funding for 11 new clinical trials....

Clinical trial portfolio

Research Infrastructures

Project Funded for Data Centre Certification in Mozambique

The ECRIN Data Centre Certification programme identifies non-commercial clinical trial units (CTUs) demonstrating that they can provide safe, secure, compliant and efficient management of clinical…...

Data Centre Certification

Worldwide collaboration

DISCHARGE Article

A new paper has been published on an ECRIN-supported trial, DISCHARGE: "Computed tomography versus invasive coronary angiography: design and methods of the pragmatic randomised multicentre DISCHARGE…...

Clinical trial portfolio

News

'Clinically Speaking': Interview with Jacques Demotes

ECRIN's Director General, Jacques Demotes, discusses the potential transformative impact of multinational clinical trials in this interview with Pan European Networks....

ECRIN Blog on Developing Standards for Describing Clinical Research Data Across Repositories

Steve Canham and Christian Ohmann recently published a methodology piece in Trials proposing standards for consistent descriptions of repositories for storing the data and documents created by…...

Data interoperability

Data standards

News

CORBEL Launches 1st Open Call for Research Projects

The CORBEL (Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services) project has launched an "Open Call" to invite researchers to access technologies and services from more than…...

Calls

Research Infrastructures

CRIGH Kicks Off in Paris

The kick-off meeting for the Clinical Research Initiative for Global Health (CRIGH) was held from 12 to 13 October in Paris, France. CRIGH aims to serve as a support structure for international…...

Research Infrastructures

Worldwide collaboration

New Publication on Publicly-Funded Practice-Oriented Clinical Trials

ECRIN has contributed to a publication entitled “Publicly funded practice-oriented clinical trials: of importance for healthcare payers”. The authors considered whether or not there are benefits to…...

Communications & Outreach

ECRIN Receives H2020 Funding for ‘PedCRIN’ Paediatric Network

ECRIN received a positive funding decision from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme for the creation of a Paediatric Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (PedCRIN). The network will…...

News

Paediatric

ECRIN Receives H2020 Funding for ‘PedCRIN’ Paediatric Network

Paediatric

Publication on Investigator-Led Trials from ECRIN’s Portuguese National Partner

ECRIN’s Portuguese national scientific partner, in collaboration with ECRIN, has authored a new publication entitled “Investigator-initiated clinical trials conducted by the Portuguese Clinical…...

National partner news

ReveraGen BioPharma Inc Initiates VISION-DMD Phase 2a Study for Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Enrolment has begun in the phase 2a clinical trial of the orphan drug vamorolone (VBP15) in the treatment of ambulatory boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The trial, sponsored by ReveraGen…...

Clinical trial portfolio

News

c4c Call for Proposals

The WE Study: Finding a way to palliate the symptoms of Cerebral Palsy in children

The POPART Trial: Reducing endotracheal intubation in preterm babies with respiratory failure

Vivli platform launch on July 19, 2018

TRANSVAC Open Call for Vaccine Development Services

PedCRIN WP3 Poster Presentation Kyoto, Japan

iCAN Summit 2018

Interview with Prof. Torstein Vik: WE Study (Walking Easier with cerebral palsy)

EMMRI: Take the opportunity to improve your managerial skills

Publication from SCTO, ECRIN's partner

CORBEL launches 2nd Open Call for research projects

Czech Republic 3rd National Clinical Trial Days - Praha - 22nd May 2018

CORBEL 2nd Open Call

International Clinical Trials Day 2018 - 15th May, 2018, Budapest, Hungary

CRIGH General Assembly: 7-8th March, 2018, Tokyo

SGP and SwissPedNet are launching a call for project proposals in paediatric health services research

HECRIN Receives Funding for Project on ‘Establishing and Internationalizing the Thematic Network for Clinical Research’

News on EU Regulations

Addendum to Guideline for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Now in Effect

EU Clinical Trial Regulation Update

Interview with Jacques Demotes on the MiRoR Website

Good Clinical Practice Inspectors Working Group (GCP IWG) Meeting

Collaboration with Estonia

Swiss Clinical Trial Organisation (SCTO) Symposium 2017 on 'Adding Value in Clinical Research'

2017 Call for Applications to Become a Certified ECRIN Data Centre Now Launched

Activities in Data Sharing: Vivli, the Center for Global Clinical Research Data, is Seeking an Executive Director

New publication: 'Global health: Boost multinational clinical research'

International Pediatric Clinical Trial Day: Helping children create lives they deserve

EMA Publishes Framework and Action Plan for Closer Interaction

CORBEL 'Medical Infrastructure / Users Forum' (MIUF) Survey Report

Press release: International Clinical Trials Day Conference on Data Sharing and Reuse

New publication: 'Raising standards in clinical research – The impact of the ECRIN data centre certification programme, 2011–2016'

Launch of PedCRIN Call for Multinational Paediatric Clinical Studies

Press release: Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS Coordinates a European Project to Obtain a Functional Cure for HIV with Immunotherapy

RISCAPE Project Launched

Three New Spanish-Coordinated Clinical Trials Launched

Press release: Towards better medicines for children: PedCRIN project builds research infrastructure

The Clinical Research Initiative for Global Health (CRIGH) Officially Launched

New Clinical Trials and Capacity Building Projects in 2016

Project Funded for Data Centre Certification in Mozambique

DISCHARGE Article

'Clinically Speaking': Interview with Jacques Demotes

ECRIN Blog on Developing Standards for Describing Clinical Research Data Across Repositories

CORBEL Launches 1st Open Call for Research Projects

CRIGH Kicks Off in Paris

New Publication on Publicly-Funded Practice-Oriented Clinical Trials

ECRIN Receives H2020 Funding for ‘PedCRIN’ Paediatric Network

ECRIN Receives H2020 Funding for ‘PedCRIN’ Paediatric Network

Publication on Investigator-Led Trials from ECRIN’s Portuguese National Partner

ReveraGen BioPharma Inc Initiates VISION-DMD Phase 2a Study for Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy