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.
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.
c4c are delighted to announce a new publication about Disease-specific data standardization. Standardization of disease-specific paediatric clinical trial data is a hugely challenging task. c4c brought together representatives from large initiatives, major data standards, well-known data dictionaries, patient registries, and clinical trial repositories with provisions for clinical data, to build a collaborative action plan for…
Rare Disease Day took place on the 29th February to raise awareness of rare diseases and demonstrate the solidarity amongst this unique global community. The day includes a global ‘Chain of Lights’ to illuminate buildings and landmarks in the rare disease colours. Many c4c beneficiaries took part in rare disease day events.
Increasingly researchers are asked by funders and ethics committees to provide a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) plan and to demonstrate they have considered the perspectives of the patients and families they wish to recruit to their clinical trials and research. The European Young Persons Advisory Group Network (eYPAGnet) can provide support in both the design and delivery of the Patient and Public Involvement Plan for any research involving babies, children and young people.