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31 August 2016

EDCTP Annual Report 2015 available online

The EDCTP 2015 Annual Report “Gaining Momentum” is now available online. 2015 was a very busy year with two programmes running in parallel, the first…

29 July 2016

EDCTP to conduct survey of its training and fellowship programmes (2003-2015)

We are contacting our former fellows and trainees via an online survey to find out about their experiences as an EDCTP fellow or trainee, how…

11 July 2016

Call for experts: EDCTP Scientific Advisory Committee

EDCTP invites applications from high-level experts from across multiple fields and sectors to apply to become members of its Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) from January…

11 July 2016

Moses Bockarie joins EDCTP as Director of South-South Cooperation and Head of Africa Office

Professor Moses John Bockarie joined EDCTP as Director of South-South Cooperation and Head of Africa Office on 1 July 2016. Prof. Bockarie, a Fellow of…

08 July 2016

EDCTP awards 2016 now open to nominations

The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) invites nominations to the following awards: Scientific Leadership Award, Outstanding Female Scientist Award and Outstanding Research…

06 July 2016

Announcement of 2016 calls for proposals

In 2016, EDCTP will launch nine calls for proposals to support clinical research and related activities. These calls are worth approximately € 138.6 M in…

04 July 2016

Public consultation on the second EDCTP programme in 2014-2016

Update 17 October 2016: Deadline of Public Consultation extended till 15 November 2016. A public consultation regarding ‘the implementation of the Second European and Developing…

23 June 2016

Fit for Health 2.0 to organise a webinar on grant agreement preparation for EDCTP2 projects

Fit for Health 2.0 will host a webinar to address the challenges of negotiating the grant and consortium agreement for projects funded under the second…

22 June 2016

EDCTP 2016 stakeholder meetings on Diarrhoeal Diseases & Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

EDCTP will hold two stakeholder meetings on Diarrhoeal Diseases and Lower Respiratory Tract Infections on 5 and 6 July, respectively. These meetings for invited experts…

03 June 2016

Eighth EDCTP Forum: registration opens, sponsorship opportunities and call for scientific symposia

EDCTP is pleased to announce that registrations to attend the Eighth EDCTP Forum are now open. Additionally, EDCTP invites interested organisations to sponsor the event,…

25 April 2016

World Malaria Day 2016: joining forces to end malaria

There has been remarkable progress made in malaria control based on current World health Organisation estimates. Nonetheless, there is still much to be done in the…

20 April 2016

Abstract submission for the Eighth EDCTP Forum is now open

EDCTP is pleased to announce that as of today the service for submission of abstracts for the Eighth Forum is open. Till 24 June 2016,…

24 March 2016

World TB Day 2016: Uniting to end the childhood TB epidemic

In 2015 tuberculosis (TB) became the world’s deadliest infectious disease, currently causing the death of 1.5 million people per year. Every year around 10 million…

17 March 2016

Joep Lange Institute for global healthcare improvement officially launched

The Joep Lange Institute (JLI) was officially inaugurated in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 15 March 2016. High-level speakers and participants from civil society, industry, politics…

10 March 2016

PREGACT: Safety and efficacy of four artemisinin-based combination treatments in African pregnant women with malaria

The results of the clinical trial PREGACT were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on 10 March 2016. The study was conducted to…