Upcoming Events

Registration is now open – Click here. 

This event will require a fully refundable registration deposit of €20. This is so we can reduce waste and cover unnecessary costs. Attendees will be refunded on arrival through Eventbrite. Please note: Refunds on Eventbrite typically take 5 to 7 business days to process.

This free in-person workshop focuses on innovative designs for trials with complex interventions. The event will start with a lunch from 12pm, follow by talks from experts in the area, and end with a panel discussion/ Q&A session. Topics include simulation study planning, methodology challenges and experience on running/ applying trial grants. A detailed programme will be circulated to participants in due course.

No preliminary knowledge on adaptive designs and other complex trial designs are expected.

Target audience: Trial statisticians working in CTU in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Early and mid-career statisticians are strongly encouraged to attend. In the event that there is a large number of attendees from the same institution, a selection process will take place by the organisers.

Date & time: Wednesday 12th March 2025, 12pm-5pm

Venue: King’s College London, Waterloo Campus

Cost: Free. This event is supported by the MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP).

For any queries, please contact Kim Lee (kim.lee@kcl.ac.uk) or Jennifer Heller (jennifer.hellier@kcl.ac.uk). 

Please register here by Wednesday 12th Feb 2025.

Registration is now open – CLICK HERE

This one day in-person conference will bring together world leading researchers, patient advocates, industry representatives and other stakeholders to share knowledge and lived experience across topics such as rare disease research methodology, translation, European Reference Network Patient Registries and rare disease clinical trial partner perspectives.

Rare disease researchers and clinical trialists will be able to showcase their work through poster presentations. Submission of abstracts of rare disease case studies and research are now invited and the deadline is Friday 7th February 2025. Please click here to view the abstract call.

The O’Reilly Hall, UCD is a wheelchair accessible venue. If you wish to discuss any accessibility requirements, please email RDCTN@ucd.ie.

Further information on the conference is available at: https://rarediseaseresearch.ie/conferences/

Rethinking Clinical Trials: Inclusivity in Practice

ECRIN are delighted to announce  International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) 2025 | Rethinking Clinical Trials: Inclusivity in Practice, co-hosted by ECRIN and SCReN in Madrid. It will take place on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.  

Launched in 2005 by ECRIN, in line with its mission to support multinational clinical research in Europe, ICTD brings together patients, health policy actors, health authorities, clinical researchers, health professionals and citizens from Europe, and beyond to discuss issues related to multinational clinical studies. ICTD commemorates the start of the landmark clinical trial, led by James Lind on sailors with scurvy, 20 May 1747. Having laid the foundation for modern clinical research, ECRIN salutes this initiative by addressing a new topic in clinical research every year on or around this date.

The need for greater inclusivity in clinical trials is clear in Europe and there is an increasing obligation to progress from discussion to concrete implementation. By uniting different stakeholders from the community, ICTD will shed light not only on why diversity, equity and inclusion should be embraced in clinical research but will give concrete examples of what has been done so far and where there are still hurdles to overcome.

https://ecrin.org/ictd-2025