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EU Partnership Offers Funding For Projects On Inclusive Clinical Trials, Synthetic Data & Theranostics

 
• By Ian Schofield

Europe’s public-private partnership, the Innovative Health Initiative, is seeking research projects in areas including innovative trial designs and methodologies to speed up the development of treatments for rare and ultra-rare conditions, reducing the environmental impact of health care products, and cutting the use of animals in drug safety testing.

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Europe is looking for innovative solutions in the medicines area • Source: Shutterstock/Olivier Le Moal

Clinical trials need to be made more inclusive of underserved patient populations who are not fully represented because of factors such as gender, ethnicity or cultural barriers, according to Europe’s Innovative Health Initiative. In addition, novel trial designs and methodological approaches including the use of real-world data are needed to help speed up the development of treatments for rare and ultra-rare diseases.

These are among the topics covered in the IHI’s two latest calls for research proposals, which also include reducing the environmental impact of health care products, cutting the use of...

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  • Europe’s Innovative Health Initiative has launched its fourth and fifth call for research proposals.

  • Two of the projects are expected to make clinical trials...

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