As part of the training activities proposed by the EJP RD, a 3-day training course titled “Pluripotent stem cells for rare disease research: banking, data, application” is being organised by Fraunhofer Institute for BiomedicalEngineering and Fondazione Telethon. The course aims at providing an overview on how human pluripotent stem cells can be used as research tools. The fully…
It is with deepest sadness we have learned about the death of our dear colleague Jordi Llinares Garcia.Jordi was the Head of Research and Innovation at the EMA. He was involved in multiple aspects of the EJP RD and IRDiRC and supported rare diseases community.Our sincerest condolences go out to his family and friends at…
The 5th European Aniridia Conference is being organised to enable the sharing of scientific knowledge about the rare genetic eye condition aniridia to prevent sight loss and deal with aniridia’s effects. This workshop has received funding support from the EJP RD’s Networking Support Scheme (NSS) funding opportunity. The fully online conference will take place over two days from July 31st…
As part of the training activities proposed by the EJP RD, a 3-day training course titled « Quality assurance, variant interpretation and data management in the NGS diagnostics era » is being organised by Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in close collaboration with EJP-RD task partners, aimed the international research community: clinicians, medical specialist, laboratory scientists (EBMG-registered), junior laboratory scientists,…
As part of the training activities proposed by the EJP RD, the International Summer School on Rare Disease Registries and FAIRification of Data is a 5-day online training programme organised by Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in close collaboration with EJP-RD task partners, aimed at the international research community, clinicians, medical specialists, registry curators, database…
EJP RD is organising an integrative research and innovation strategy meeting on the theme of alignment of national rare disease strategies with the EJP RD targeted towards policy makers and persons involved in national, EU, and international rare diseases strategies. The fully online strategy meeting will take place on 8th July 2021 from 09:30 – 17:00 CET.…
In the context of EJP RD’s ERN Workshops, a face-to-face workshop on clinical epidemiological research for ERNs titled « Clinical Research: The Basics & Beyond » (consisting of presentations by experts in the field of epidemiology and a feedback session on the research projects of participants) is being organised by Dr. Olaf Dekkers of the Leiden University…
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The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases has launched an academic education course on rare diseases research topics. The development of the courses is coordinated by the Foundation for Rare Diseases, one of the EJP RD partners. The first course will address research issues related to diagnosis in the rare diseases context. More information Join…
We are glad to pre-announce the upcoming opening of the call for Research Mobility Fellowships on the 15th of March, which aims to support PhD students, Postdocs and medical doctors in training to undertake scientific visits fostering specialist research training outside their countries of residence. The exchange can be carried out within the same ERN…