conect4children Stichting
IMI2 conect4children Consortium announces the establishment of the conect4children Stichting
Collaboration in neonatal and paediatric clinical pharmacology: creating a peer-based mentoring platform in a pan-European clinical trial network
In recent years, substantial improvements in clinical trial facilitation have been made through a pan-European network conect4children (c4c), funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2. Within c4c, collaboration and experience-based teaching were attainable due to live meetings and structured social interactions. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, meeting platforms were limited and strictly virtual, creating an artificial…
Digital mental health: challenges and next steps
Digital innovations in mental health offer great potential, but present unique challenges. Using a consensus development panel approach, an expert, international, cross-disciplinary panel met to provide a framework to conceptualise digital mental health innovations, research into mechanisms and effectiveness and approaches for clinical implementation. Key questions and outputs from the group were agreed by consensus,…
Spotlight: GermanNetPaeT
GermanNetPaeT is the German Network for Paediatric Trials and was founded in 2018 as the German National Hub (NH), a partner of the European conect4children network (c4c network).
3rd c4c Multistakesholder Meeting
A 3rd c4c Multistakeholder Meeting (MSM) was held on 21 February in Berlin; the topic was medical devices for children with Type 1 diabetes.
Patients, Families & the Science of Rare Diseases
On the 28th February, we commemorated Rare Disease day. The majority of rare diseases affect children, with an estimated 70% having a Paediatric onset (source www.eurordis.org). There is a huge, unmet need to develop effective drugs for children with rare diseases. Currently, only 5% of rare diseases have an effective treatment option.
Spotlight on SwissPedNet
What did the Swiss clinical research landscape look like ten years ago? Research infrastructures in adult medicine were available and funded, and Swiss paediatricians were aiming to include paediatrics into those activities.
CDISC and c4c release Paediatrics User Guide
CDISC and conect4children (c4c) release of Paediatrics User Guide to facilitate better medicines for babies, children and young people
Spotlight on In4kids – the Irish National Hub
In4kids, the Irish national hub of the c4c network has been going from strength to strength over recent years, helping to bring researchers across the island of Ireland together to improve the quantity and quality of children’s clinical research in Ireland.
New c4c paper published!
New c4c paper published – Standardizing Paediatric Clinical Data: The Development of the conect4children (c4c) Cross Cutting Paediatric Data Dictionary