2008

• Pan-European Clinical Trials under current EU regulations - A training course for data managers, study nurses, and junior clinical investigators, London, UK, 24-25 January 2008- programme
  
• Global Profidys Conference, 22 January, Lyon, France

2007

• The art exhibition “Bringing Medicine to Life” was featured in the Media Watch section of The Lancet Oncology Vol. 8, page 109, February 2007.
  
  
• World’s largest clinical trial into rare bone cancer ’well underway’ conference hears
  The world’s largest study aimed at improving the treatment of a rare type of bone cancer that mainly affects children and young adults is well underway, an international conference was told.
  
  
• Young Bone Cancer Patients Produce Unique Art Exhibition
  A unique art exhibition depicting the hopes and fears of children and young people with bone cancer has been produced by patients taking part in an important clinical trial aimed at improving treatment of the disease. To see the art project, click here.
  
  
• Update of the European and American Osteosarcoma Study EURAMOS-1 (a trial conducted as part of the EUROCORES ECT programme), 20th Annual Meeting of the European MusculoSkeletal Oncology Society (EMSOS), Oporto, 17-18 May
  
  
• Third PROFIDYS Trial Steering Committee Meeting, Porto, 30 March
  
  
• PROFIDYS Management Committee meeting: Strasbourg, 8 February

2006

• Conference on "Pan-European Sarcoma Trials: Moving forward in a climate of increasing economic and regulatory pressure" : Stuttgart, Germany, 30 November-2 December 2006 - To read the scientific report please click here
  The conference on Pan-European Sarcoma Trials was featured in the section News in-depth of The Lancet Oncology Vol. 8, page 10, January 2007.
  

• The second PROFIDYS Trial Steering Committee meeting took place in Paris on 17 October 2006. 

• The Second Pan-European Clinical Trial Training Course organised in the frame of the ECT programme took place in Oslo on 5-6 October 2006. 
  This course, comprising panel lectures and workshops, provided a forum for people responsible for managing European clinical trials at the institutional level to discuss and work through the various challenges in a supportive environment with peers and colleagues.  Particular emphasis was placed on the practicalities of ensuring patient safety by complying with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) as well as National legislation and EU regulations. To read the scientific report please click here

• “EURAMOS 1 - an international randomized study in a rare cancer: last of a soon-to-be extinct species or hope for the future?”, 38th Annual Conference of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology  (SIOP), Geneva, 19 September 2006

• "Clinical Investigator Training  - Pan-European Clinical Trial Courses developed by the EUROCORES ECT Programme", Conference on Clinical Trials in Serbia: Looking upon GCP, Regulatory Issues and Bio-ethics, co-organised by the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice and the Medicine and Medical Device Agency of Serbia, Belgrade, 5 September 2006
  
• PROFIDYS Trial Steering Committee Meeting, Paris, 27 June 2006
  
• Successful multinational implementation of the European and American Osteosarcoma Study EURAMOS-1 within the European Science Foundation’s ECT-EUROCORES scheme, 19th Annual Meeting of the European MusculoSkeletal Oncology Society (EMSOS), Moscow, 26 May 2006
  
  
• “Managing an international clinical trial: Roles, Responsibilities and mechanisms of the EURAMOS-1 trial organizations and committees”: Training Sessions, Workshop and Meetings, MRC Clinical Trial Unit, London, UK, 4-5 May 2006 - To read the scientific report please click here
  
• ECT Management Committee Meeting, Strasbourg, 9 February 2006.

2005

• The "First Training Course on Pan-European Clinical Trials under current EU regulations" was held in Stuttgart on 2-3 December 2005 was attended by 150 data managers, study nurses and junior clinical investigators. To read the scientific report click here
  
  
• Pediatric Clinical Trials Session on Osteosarcoma organised by EURAMOS in the frame of the ECT Programme, 13th European Cancer Conference (ECCO 13), Paris, 1st November 2005
  
  
• PROFIDYS Management Committee meeting: Brussels, 9 September
  
  
• “EURAMOS-1: A model for the future of clinical research in osteosarcoma”, Sarcoma Meeting Stuttgart (SMS), Stuttgart, 16 June 2005

• EURAMOS networking meeting: Stuttgart, 14 June
  
  
• “The European Science Foundation’s Pan-European Clinical Trials (ECT) EUROCORES: EURAMOS-1: Scientific, regulatory and funding issues of a Pan-European / American osteosarcoma study”, 18th Annual Meeting of the European Musculo-Skeletal Oncology Society (EMSOS), Trieste, 26 May 2005
  
  
• ECT Management Committee meeting: Strasbourg, 10 February
  
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2004

• EURAMOS networking meeting: Oslo, 15 September 2004
  
  
• PROFIDYS networking meeting: Paris, 6 July 2004
  
  
• PROFIDYS meeting: Paris, 15 June 2004
  
  
• EURAMOS networking meeting: Frankfurt, 29-30 January 2004
  

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2003

• ECT Management Committee meeting: Brussels, 6-7 October 2003
  
  
• PROFIDYS meeting: Brussels, 1 October 2003.

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