On November 10th-12th EPTRI was presented at the DIA Japan Annual Meeting 2019, held in Tokyo (Japan) at the Tokyo Big Sight on the topic “In order to deliver rational medicine for all people in the globe”. The aim of the meeting was to provide the answer to the following question: What can and should… Read More »
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Elisa Alessandrini, from University College London (UCL), recently attended the 9th annual MIBio conference on behalf of the EPTRI consortium. The event took place at Downing College (Cambridge) on the 13th of November. Elisa presented a poster about the EPTRI project focusing on the expertise and gaps in the paediatric formulation science area. The theme… Read More »
The European Commission launched the “Call for expression of interest for expert panels on medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices” to find experienced clinical, scientific and technical experts in the area of the medical and in vitro diagnostic devices. These experts will become part of the expert panels, foreseen by the new Regulations… Read More »
On 21-22 October 2019, the 4th General Assembly of the ID-EPTRI project took place in Warsaw (Poland). It was organised in collaboration with the Polish partner Instytut “Pomnik-Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka” (IPCZD). The first day of the meeting was hosted at the Polish Ministry of Health with the important participation of the Ministry of Health Łucasz… Read More »
EPTRI representatives have attended the Information Day held at the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) and organised by the Agency for the Promotion of European Research (APRE) and the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). The “Research Infrastructures Information Day” was divided into two separate but closely linked meetings in order… Read More »
On September 27th 2019 the XII edition of the Foresight Training Course was held in Toulouse (France) at the Hotel Dieu St. Jacques. This workshop is a standing itinerant appointment organised by Gianni Benzi Foundation and the theme of this year was “Innovative Medicine and Research: Ethical, Legal and Regulatory Issues”. The course was held… Read More »
Europe Biobank Week is the largest and most significant European conference on biobanking. This year’s edition was recently celebrated in Lubeck (Germany), from October 8th to 11th. Angelica Intini, from Consorzio per Valutazione Biologiche e Farmacologiche (CVBF), presented a poster on behalf of EPTRI at this relevant event. The poster presented by Angelica was titled “How… Read More »
Two additional governments have recently shown its support to EPTRI, aimed at becoming the first Research Infrastructure focused on paediatric medicines development and integrating technology-driven aspects with paediatric basic science (human development). On 25th September 2019, the Albanian Ministry of Health granted EPTRI with its official support by signing an Expression of political support letter… Read More »
On behalf of the EPTRI consortium, Valeria Pignataro, — WP8 reference person for Consorzio per Valutazioni Biologiche e Farmacologiche (CVBF) — recently attended the 10th APS International PharmSci Conference, which was held on September 11-13th at the University of Greenwich, in London. Valeria presented two posters portraying several outcomes of the project. The theme… Read More »
As we announced in June, the EPTRI survey on oral formulations was launched last spring with the aim of collecting data on preference of dosage forms for guiding the development of age-appropriate medicines. The survey, developed by WP8 in collaboration with WP11, uses country and age-adapted questions to quantify children’s experience with taking different pharmaceutical formulations. The… Read More »