ECRIN CTU Day 2022 International Online Meeting
At the beginning of December, the second annual ECRIN CTU Day 2022 – a meeting of national Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) representatives organised by the European Network of Clinical Research Infrastructures ECRIN. This followed last year’s first pan-European online meeting, but this year nearly 180 staff from CTU national offices participated.
The main topic of the meeting was the exchange of experiences from the first academic multinational clinical trials that have been approved in the European Central Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS). The pitfalls of the transition from the VHP platform to CTIS and the subsequent changes for ongoing international trials were discussed. Furthermore, the first year and new activities of ECRIN were recapped.
A separate block was dedicated to the performance CZECRIN and the German national partner KKSN. Lenka Součková, ECRIN European Correspondent for the Czech Republic, gave a summary presentation of the CZECRIN infrastructure and highlighted its uniqueness based on knowledge and basic technological units (units for the production of investigational products for modern GMP therapies, national network of clinical trial centres in healthcare facilities (CTU), disease-oriented networks (DON) and units for phase I studies). She also mentioned the great advantage in its inclusion that allows direct access to knowledge and teaching for students. Finally, she also summarized the vision and challenges for the future period of CZECRIN and its CTUs.
