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What are patients’ needs and how to improve the development of medicines?

NewsBy Partner-Editor 23 April 2021

What are patients’ needs and how to improve the development of medicines? First c4c Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). c4c held its first International Multi-Stakeholder Meeting (MSM) on paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) virtually on 14-15 April 2021. Over 100 individuals participated, representing patients and advocates, clinicians, academics, pharmaceutical companies and regulators.…

Empowering trial staff one course at a time – 2021 Invitation to Join

NewsBy Partner-Editor 31 March 2021

In c4c, we are creating an integrated educational program, developed jointly by academia and industry companies, to address best practice in paediatric clinical trials and paediatric medicine development. So far, 31 courses have been developed within our consortium in the fields of: Good Clinical Practice (GCP basic courses) Competence Development courses in Good Clinical Practice…

The role of PPI (patient public involvement) within clinical trials in c4c

NewsBy Partner-Editor 22 March 2021

The voice of the patient in clinical research and development is increasingly being taken into account, from the setting of research priorities right through to dissemination of results. This marks a shift in what has historically and culturally been seen, until relatively recently, as research “on” rather than “with” patients. PPI is an inherent part…

Paediatric clinical trials: industry and non-industry coming together within c4c

NewsBy Partner-Editor 22 March 2021

Clinical trials are an essential part of advancing knowledge and improving healthcare worldwide. Advances in paediatric research across the globe to improve the lives of babies, children and young people have dramatically reduced rates in morbidity and mortality and increased the quality of life, for example, reducing sudden infant death, increasing the life expectancy for…

National Hub meeting outcomes

NewsBy Partner-Editor 4 March 2021

c4c held the first workshop on Young Persons Advocacy Groups (YPAG) for the PPI liaisons in the National Hubs on the 28 January and 4 February held over ZOOM virtual meeting platform. In case you are not familiar with this term, A Young Persons Advisory Group (YPAG) is a group made up of children and…

IMI publishes articles about c4c progess

NewsBy Partner-Editor 27 January 2021

IMI publishes articles about the progress of c4c and closing the gap in paediatric medicine development The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) who provide grant funding for conect4children, have published an article about the important work c4c has carried out so far, to ensure that clinical trial sites across Europe are ‘trial ready’ for paediatric…

Empowering trial staff one course at a time

NewsBy Partner-Editor 16 November 2020

Over the last two years the c4c Paediatric Medicine Academy has been hard at work organizing, developing and providing high quality educational and training programs aimed at equipping researchers and clinicians with the best tools and techniques for optimal organisation, implementation and delivery of effective paediatric clinical trials. To-date, c4c has had the honour of…

c4c providing strategic feasibility advice

NewsBy Partner-Editor 27 October 2020

Experts selected from the conect4children (c4c) Expert Groups are available to provide Strategic Feasibility Advice (scientific advice), to c4c beneficiaries who are developing medicines for children. Advice is available on any aspect of a paediatric clinical study or development program, e.g. trial design, including end points and assessment schedules. Patient and/or parent experts may also…

We did it – first c4c online Train the Trainers Workshop held!

NewsBy Partner-Editor 23 October 2020

We did it – first c4c online Train the Trainers Workshop held! The c4c Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Team work to ensure that the voice and opinion of children, young people and families is embedded throughout the c4c project. On 16 – 17 September 2020, the first virtual “Train the Trainers” workshop was held…

c4c’s 1st publication

NewsBy Partner-Editor 13 October 2020

conect4children (c4c) is pleased to announce its first publication. The review titled “European research networks to facilitate drug research in children” has been published by the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. This review discusses the need for a structured approach to drug development by establishing and utilizing research networks and infrastructures. The publication…

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