Preannouncement Symposium 2012: Personalised Medicine in Clinical Research

Leading national and international experts are discussing the current topic «Personalised Medicine in Clinical Research» in Zurich on 14 June 2012.
They are presenting latest trends in this field from an academic and industrial perspective while illustrating related social effects and ethical questions.

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Forum Clinical Research 2012

Over 60 experts attended the second Forum «Clinical Research», organised by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) and the Swiss Clinical Trial Organisation (SCTO) on 25 January 2012 in Bern.
During the first part of the event, exponents of academic research, pharmaceutical industry, research funding institutions as well as exponents of authorities shared their views on «Study Participant Information: Any Improvement Expected?».
In the second part of the forum, the institutions reported on their activities in the past year. The majority declared the process of monitoring and support the preparation of the ordinances to the act of research involving humans and the preparation of the respective implementation as this year’s big challenge.
The Forum Clinical Research 2013 will take place on Wednesday, 30 January 2013.

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Clinical Trial Units subject to scrutiny: professional expertise confirmed

A first independent evaluation - initiated by the SCTO in coopera­tion with Swissmedic - of all the Clinical Trial Units supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation was performed.
In accordance to their regulatory mandate based on the Act on Therapeutic Products, Swissmedic conducted standardised system inspections from May to July 2011 in these CTUs. With the final inspection reports, the first and very useful analyses of the CTUs’ management systems are available.
The assessments by Swissmedic, rating from favourable to very good, confirm the professional expertise of the inspected CTUs. The results are summarised in the Schweizerische Ärztezeitung.

Swissmedic durchleuchtet CTUs  [SÄZ,03/2012]