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EU IHI's Research Projects To Include Patient-Generated Evidence, Minipig Drug Safety Studies

 
• By Ian Schofield

Europe’s IHI has outlined the seven topics that are likely to be included in its forthcoming calls for research projects, with the first ones due to be announced at the end of the year.

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Minipigs could reduce the use of non-human primates in drug safety testing • Source: Shutterstock

The EU’s private-public Innovative Health Initiative is planning its next calls for research proposals, which are likely to include topics such as patient-generated evidence to support decision-making and speed up innovation, using patient-centric blood sample collection to enable decentralized clinical trials, and strengthening the EU ecosystem for advanced therapies.

The calls are also expected to cover research projects on screening platforms and biomarkers for predicting and preventing diseases in areas of unmet need, and the use of “minipigs” to reduce or

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