III National Clinical Trials Day will focus on paediatrics
Prague: Next Tuesday, the Wallenstein Palace in Prague will host scientists not only from the Czech Republic but also from abroad. Experts will take part in a scientific conference entitled III National Clinical Trials Day 2018, under the auspices of the Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and Social Policy, Prof. Jan Žaloudík, M.D., CSc. The theme of this year’s day-long conference is clinical research and trials in paediatrics.
The ethical and legislative aspects of clinical research in paediatrics, European activities in the field of clinical trials in children and specific clinical trials in paediatrics will be the topics of this year’s third annual conference organised by the Senate Committee on Health and Social Policy in cooperation with the CZECRIN research infrastructure, which is coordinated in the Czech Republic by the International Centre for Clinical Research at the St.Anne’s University Hospital in Brno and Masaryk University. In addition to the CZECRIN infrastructure, the PharmAround Foundation also participates in the conference.
“Clinical research in paediatric patients is currently a very sensitive topic not only from an ethical, but also scientific and, last but not least, administrative regulatory point of view. The need for innovative treatments is constantly growing and in the field of paediatrics, more than anywhere else, there is still a lot of unexplored aspects,” explained the principal investigator of the CZECRIN infrastructure doc. MUDr. Regina Demlová, PhD. and added that although this year’s conference focuses on academic clinical research in paediatric patients, it also aims to highlight the issue of clinical trials in general and emphasise the need for funding for independent academic clinical research.
The organizers have divided the conference into three thematic blocks, two of which are dedicated to procedural issues in academic clinical trials and the last one will focus on the specific presentation of clinical trials.
“The last session of the conference will feature five experts who will present paediatric research projects underway in the Czech Republic. As an example, I can mention a lecture on the development of functional foods for children suffering from diabetes, or a lecture on genetic testing of children with growth disorders,” said Lenka Součková Ph.D., PharmD, one of the organizers of the conference.