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Call for nominations: Else Kröner Fresenius Prize 2023
June 23, 2022

In honour of the outstanding lifetime achievements of Else Kröner, the founder of the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung, the foundation has established a major biennial research prize to be awarded in a specified field of biomedical science. The field chosen for 2023 is Diseases of worldwide significance.

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Recommendations from the EDCTP/ECRIN session on clinical trial infrastructure and capacity building in Africa
March 02, 2022

Together with the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership  (EDCTP), ECRIN hosted a session at the Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Summit on 17 June 2021.  This session brought together key global health actors to collectively discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the next steps towards the comprehensive mobilization of all stakeholders for building sustainable clinical research preparedness and response capacities. It led to the development of 11 recommendations for capacity building and the development of a clinical research infrastructure in Africa.

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The 3rd CRIGH General Assembly
November 04, 2021

The General Assembly of the Clinical Research Initiative for Global Health Consortium (CRIGH) went virtual for its 3rd edition.

The CRIGH Consortium was launched in October 2016, as a follow-up to a prior initiative of the OECD Global Science Forum, to establish a global framework to accelerate international cooperation in non-commercial clinical trials and to promote evidence-based medicine. To date, CRIGH brings together more than 40 international stakeholders across the clinical research value chain on five continents.

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ECRIN launches Marketplace for scientific clinical research on Covid-19
April 13, 2021

ECRIN, the European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network, has launched the Covid-19 Marketplace. This new, online tool aims to facilitate and promote collaboration by providing access to planned and ongoing clinical trials, and to share trial ideas and questions in order to enable clinical researchers interested in the same topic to reach out and join forces.

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ECRIN launches Clinical Research Metadata Repository, including COVID-19 data
April 30, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis requires researchers to join forces worldwide to find a cure and a vaccine. Sharing research data is a critical step in this global cooperation effort. ECRIN has launched a Clinical Research Metadata Repository, including COVID-19 data, allowing the discovery of clinical studies and related data objects, for example protocols, information sheets and consent forms, data management plans, statistical analysis plans, case report forms, results, publications descriptive metadata, etc. The Clinical Research Metadata Repository is updated regularly through collection of data from the most important sources of information worldwide, from New Zealand to the Netherlands and from Japan to Lebanon. 

Please visit the Clinical Metadata Repository at http://crmdr.org or visit https://ecrin.org/covid-19-taskforce for more information and details on all the services provided by the ECRIN COVID-19 Task Force. 

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EJP-RD Support Office Now Online
November 28, 2019

The  'European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP-RD)' has launched an online Support Officer offering, among others, Clinical Study support for clinical investigators preparing clinical studies on rare diseases. 

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New CRIGH Website
July 08, 2019
CRIGH is pleased to announce that its new website has gone live! The website provides background information on the project and a description of activities, as well as relevant publications/documents, and features project and partner news and events.
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