Together with Bern University Hospital, the University of Bern, and sitem-insel AG (Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine), the SCTO is holding its 10th symposium on 8 June 2021. Our online event is dedicated to the topic of medical devices: from clinical development to registration and market access.

Additional breakout session: Submissions to ethics committees: New processes and synchronisation

The breakout sessions during the lunch break will give participants the chance to learn more about topics specific to Switzerland.

You may register online 25 May. The programme is available on our page Symposium 2021.

The SCTO has published a fact sheet on on patient and public involvement (PPI). It was prepared in close collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and is currently available in English.

Fact sheet on patient and public involvement (PPI)

At its General Assembly on 13 April 2021, the Steering Board of the SCTO unanimously re-elected Prof. Christiane Pauli-Magnus as President of the SCTO. Prof. Pauli-Magnus is Co-Head of the Department of Clinical Research and Head of the Clinical Trial Unit at the University Hospital Basel.

Furthermore, two new Steering Board members were elected for the funding period 2021– 2024: Prof. Mauro Oddo was elected new representative of the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), replacing Prof. Manuel Pascual, and Prof. Thomas Geiser was elected representative of the University Hospital (Inselspital) Bern, replacing Prof. Matthias Gugger.

We wish to express our warm thanks to Prof. Pauli-Magnus for her continued and active commitment and we also sincerely thank Prof. Manuel Pascual and Prof. Matthias Gugger for their longstanding and dedicated support of the SCTO projects.

On 8 June 2021, the SCTO is organising its 10th Symposium together with Bern University Hospital, the University of Bern, and sitem-insel AG (Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine). Our online event is dedicated to the topic of medical devices: from clinical development to certification and market access.

You may register online 25 May. The latest draft of the programme is available on our page Symposium 2021.

For the seventh time, the ​Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is launching a call for clinical studies on topics that are outside the industry focus.

Applicants must submit a letter of intent (LOI) via mySNF by 25 May 2021. The platform will be open to researchers as of 1 April 2021.

Participation requirements Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials (IICT)

In their fifth call, Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT) will support doctoral student (iDoc Projects) and postdoc (TPdF Projects) projects bridging the two areas science/engineering and medicine. In addition, Technology Translation Projects (TTP) aim to bring technologies developed in the institutions of the ETH Domain into direct clinical utility.

The submission deadline for the proposals of this fifth call is 15 May 2021.

For more information about the call and about Personalized Health and Related Technologies, visit the PHRT’s website.

SCTO Forum goes digital! The diverse and compact presentations from the digital SCTO Forum 2021 on 27 January 2021 are now available online.

Learn how national experts, such as Swiss National Councillor Yvonne Feri and researcher Silvia Stringhini, illuminate the forum’s topic from different angles. In addition, you can listen to the keynote presentation of Annabelle South, Policy & Research Impact Coordinator at the British Medical Research Council, to receive an overview of current evidence for how knowledge transfer can be achieved, including practical examples and recommendations.

The podcasts are available in English or German.

Links:
Podcasts SCTO Forum 2021 on Vimeo
Programme SCTO Forum 2021 on our website

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