We are pleased to highlight a landmark book “Essentials of Translational Pediatric Drug Development” has just been published. More than 100 contributors from around the world – many of them associated with c4c – provide a synthesis of contemporary approaches to this important topic. Advocates for patient and public involvement, regulators, industry, and academics collaborated…
Meet the team behind c4c! We are a diverse group of people from many different backgrounds, but all of us are working towards a common goal: better medicines for children through European clinical trials. This time the spotlight is on the Young Investigators Community (YIC).
The Olympic Games are being held soon! The Games showcase top sporting achievements from athletes around the world. Much like this large event, the conect4children project gathers the top players in paediatric medicine and clinical trials to achieve outstanding goals.
The conect4children (c4c) project aims to facilitate efficient planning and delivery of paediatric clinical trials. One objective of c4c is data standardization and reuse. Interoperability and reusability of paediatric clinical trial data is challenging due to a lack of standardization. The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standards that are required or recommended for regulatory…
Between 4th-6th June 2024, 140 people from c4c Beneficiaries met in Bergen, Norway for the c4c General Assembly.
Despite global efforts to improve paediatric clinical trials, significant delays continue in paediatric drug approvals. Collaboration between research networks is needed to address these delays. This paper is a first step to promote interoperability between paediatric networks from different jurisdictions by comparing drivers for, and content of, metrics about clinical trial conduct. To read full…
The c4c-Finnish National Hub is located within the Paediatric Clinical Trial Unit (CTU) of the Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) New Children’s Hospital since its inception in 2018 along with the c4c project.
There is a saying that goes “It takes a village to raise a child”, so it must take a lot of people to work on a project that targets every child!
Eurovision 2024 just announced its new winner! Congratulations to Switzerland for the amazing performance! Just as Eurovision countries are ‘united by music’, so is conect4children united by a mutual goal: better medicines for babies, children and young people through a pan-European clinical trial network. Through a collaboration between 36 academic, 10 industry and around 500 affiliated partners, we are determined to achieve this goal.
The MCRN – Medicines for Children Research Network – Hungary (in Hungarian: Gyógyászati Klinikai Vizsgálói Hálózat) acts as the Hungarian national hub in the c4c initiative.