The RI-VIS Latin America – Europe Symposium will be held from June 15th to June 17th, 2021, as a virtual event. This event is organised in collaboration with the EU-LAC ResInfra project. International cooperation in science and technology is an important part of addressing major global issues like climate change, infectious disease, food security, and natural… Read More »
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The HMA-EMA Big Data Steering Group is pleased to announce the upcoming virtual workshop focused on “data characterization and discoverability” that will be held on Monday, 12 April 2021. Data characterization and discoverability are goals for the scientific community and for medicines regulation. The HMA-EMA joint Big Data Task Force recommended “to promote data discoverability… Read More »
The 40th National Congress of the Italian Pharmacological Society (SIF) took place virtually from March 9-13, 2021. The Congress main theme was the scientific value and appropriate use of drugs. The Pharmacology sector is experiencing an exhilarating and highly transformative period. It is called to play an increasingly central role through new research methodologies, advanced… Read More »
EPTRI has developed a questionnaire to quantify children’s experience with taking various pharmaceutical formulations, that is now available in Hausa, an African language. Considering the issue of the shortage of paediatric formulations, EPTRI decided to investigate which formulations can better suit paediatric patients living in African resource-limited settings in order to turn a spotlight also… Read More »
The first UK’s Child Health Technology Conference – CHT2021 was held virtually from March 2-5, 2021. The event promoted by the NIHR Children and Young People MedTech Co-operative (NIHR CYP MedTech) was a great occasion to share knowledge, expertise, and experience on a diverse range of child health technology subjects. For the occasion, EPTRI has… Read More »
The Global Accelerator for Paediatric formulations (GAP-f) is a WHO-led network focused on achieving universal health coverage with the aim to provide medicines for children in need. In occasion of an analysis initiated by the WHO (World Health Organization) regarding the most requested and needed paediatric medicines, GAP-f in collaboration with PENTA Foundation has developed… Read More »
One of the main interests of EPTRI includes the rare diseases (RDs) as they affect mainly children, and genetic RDs start early in the prenatal/childhood life with a high frequent use of medicines not specifically tested (off-label, unlicensed). To this aim, EPTRI recently became a friend of Rare Disease Day, an initiative organised by EURORDIS… Read More »
The short questionnaire developed by the European Paediatric Formulation Initiative (EuPFI) in collaboration with EPTRI is now available in Romanian and has been revised by the youths in Romania. The survey is aimed to find out what types of devices child and parent/caregiver use and how easy they are to handle, in order to find ways of making these… Read More »
The NIHR Children and Young People MedTech Co-operative (NIHR CYP MedTech) and Marketing Sheffield has launched the UK’s first Child Health Technology Conference – CHT2021 that will take place virtually on 2-5 March 2021. For this occasion, EPTRI has submitted an abstract entitled ‘The European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure to foster research on paediatric medical… Read More »
The European Alliance for Transformative Therapies was created in June 2020 as an informal interest group to foster effective dialogue around gene and cell therapies and provide evidence-based policy recommendations. The European Alliance for Transformative Therapies was officially launched on 8 December 2020 during the online event “Preparing Europe for Novel Cell and Gene Therapies…. Read More »