The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine is pleased to invite you to the ICPerMed Conference: Prelude to the Future of Medicine, which will provide insight into what future of medicine will look like by presenting concrete examples of personalised medicine approaches and aspects already in practice. The hybrid event (in-person + virtual conference) will take place over…
New opportunity to follow the MOOC on Rare Diseases Diagnostics! Given the enthusiasm raised by the MOOC « Diagnosing Rare Diseases: from the Clinic to Research and back » co-developed by Foundation For Rare Diseases, ERN Ithaca and ERN Genturis in the context of European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases, we have decided to keep it open continuously for enrollment.…
Diamond-Blackfan anemia is a rare disease characterized by a defect in the production of red blood cells. In a plenary paper published in the journal Blood on May 26th, scientists highlighted a new form of the disease linked to the loss of function of the HEATR3 gene , the product of which chaperones the synthesis…
A funded networking event « European meeting on Phelan-McDermid syndrome » is being organised to discuss the guideline recommendations and to strengthen the collaboration that was started in 2020 by the European consortium on Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) and supported by ERN-ITHACA, in order to tackle the knowledge gaps that they identified, as well as to discuss how best to…
A funded networking event « 2nd International Congress on Biliary Atresia and Related Diseases (BARD) » is being organised to offer access to the latest research and analysis related to this family of rare diseases. This event has received funding support from the EJP RD’s Networking Support Scheme (NSS) funding opportunity as part of the second round of funding…
A funded networking event “3rd International Symposium for Researchers and Clinicians on Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome (WAS2022)” is being organised to offer access to the latest research and analysis related to this rare disease. This event has received funding support from the EJP RD’s Networking Support Scheme (NSS) funding opportunity as part of the first round of funding…
EJP RD is pleased to announce that the next edition of the 7th RE(ACT) Congress and 5th IRDiRC Conference will be held in person in Berlin, Germany from March 15th – 18th, 2023. The joint event « RE(ACT) Congress and IRDiRC Conference 2023 » aims to bring together scientific leaders and experts and young scientists from various…
The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI), a European Union public-private partnership funding health research and innovation, is organising a kick-off and brokerage event that will provide pertinent information on upcoming IHI call topics and processes and facilitate network building through face-to-face and virtual meetings as well as pitching sessions. This event, which is targeted towards small and medium-sized enterprises,…
The European Commission (EC) is organising, in May and June 2022, a virtual marketplace and a series of online matchmaking events that offer African and European organisations an opportunity to strengthen old and forge new ties with the pharma, biotech, medtech and life-science industries across the two continents. Several virtual events (webinars, healthcare marketplace, matchmaking meetings)…
EJP RD’s innovative Rare Diseases Research (RDR) Challenges call in partnership with Fondation Maladies Rares was aimed at facilitating and funding collaboration between industry, academia, SMEs, and patient organisations to solve specific research challenges in rare diseases. The fourth challenge issued under the RDR call was for the development of a pre-clinical assay to detect instability of microsatellite repeat expansions. We are glad to…