eureKARE, a company that invests in and supports European early-stage high-risk projects in the field of microbiome and synthetic biology has announced a competition between promising academic projects in synthetic biology across Europe. All European researchers (PhD, postdocs, senior researchers) are invited to participate to the competition. The winner of the competition will get free…
The Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) are jointly organising the 2021 Annual Symposium on the theme of Orphan Drug Innovation: Needs and Priorities. The event is targeted towards legal,economic, business, medical, and scientific…
Innovative techniques in the biomedical field (such as massive sequencing capacity, gene editing and tissue engineering) have resulted in the development of new unconventional drugs in the Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) class. In this scenario, the European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure (EPTRI) and the EU-funded RESTORE project are collaborating to describe the map of competences available in the framework of the paediatric ATMP research in pan-European…
Genopole, the oldest and largest biocluster in France, is organising its Summer School 2021 on statistical methodologies and bioinformatics tools used in genomics and metagenomics in the context of a comprehensive approach to pathological mechanisms, targeted towards researchers, engineers, PhD students and post-docs involved in or planning to start their research project in the field of…
The National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD) is organising its annual NORD Summit 2021, one of the largest multi-stakeholder events in rare disease, bringing together rare disease community stakeholders, including rare disease experts and leaders from patient advocacy groups, government, industry, and academia to discuss the most current and critical topics related to rare diseases…
The European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE) is organising a multi-stakeholder round table discussion on the theme of the future of rare diseases in Europe: Revision of the European Orphan & Paediatric Regulation and impact for the Nordic Rare Disease Community in the context of review of the European legislation on paediatric medicines (EC 1901/2006)…
The European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP) and the Drug Information Association (DIA) are organising the Better Medicines for Children Conference 2021 on the theme of « Global Paediatric Drug Development Challenges and Solutions – The Path Forward ». The fully virtual conference will take place over two days from October 18th – 19th from 11.45 – 18.00 CET. Better Medicines for…
The Golden Helix Foundation and the Leiden University Medical Center, both partners of the Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics (U-PGx) project, are co-organising the Personalized Medicine Symposium 2021. The symposium will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands over two days from October 27th – 28th. This international event is open for clinical pharmacologists, hospital pharmacists, general pharmacists, specialists, general practitioners, medical students, laboratory technicians, regulators, healthcare insurers and…
The European Advanced Translational Research Infrastructure in Medicine (EATRIS) together with the European Patients Forum (EPF), the European AIDS Treatment Group and the European Patients Academy (EUPATI) have co-launched a short anonymous survey on Patient Engagement in Academic Research. Targeted primarily at academic researchers, they encourage any academic researcher regardless of their research focus and…
The European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB) and the European Research Infrastructure on Biobanking (BBMRI-ERIC) are jointly organising the Europe Biobank Week 2021 as a Virtual Congress with this year’s theme “Biobanking for our Future – Opportunities Unlocked” representing a unique opportunity to meet representatives in biobanking as well as other…