The Care-for-Rare Foundation at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München launches this year again the Care-for-Rare Science Award 2019. The Care-for-Rare Science Award is endowed with 50,000 Euro and should give scientists the chance to initiate a basic or clinical research project in the field of rare diseases. A disease is…
Are you a clinician or researcher interested in OI? Then the conference Quality of Life 4 OI is waiting to hear from you. Key dates to keep in mind: 1 June 2019, 23:59 CET: Abstract submission deadline 1 July 2019: Notifications to authors Submitting your abstract provides you with an opportunity to: gain visibility for…
The international awareness day of OI – Wishbone Day is coming up in less than 2 weeks (on May 6th). Do you want to help us color the world yellow and spread awareness about OI, OIFE and the OI-community? Then try out our frame for your Facebook profile photo! Go to OIFE’s Facebook-page and click…
2 Weeks left until Early Bird Deadline! Are you a professional who’s interested in eyes, ears and teeth of people with OI? Or basilar invagination (BI)? Do you yourself have issues related to this? Then we invite you to take part in our seminar See, Hear, Smile! from June 14th – 15th in Riga, Latvia.…
OIFE’s 26th Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held in Riga, Latvia from June 15th – 16th following the topical meeting See, Hear, Smile! If you plan to take part in both the topical meeting and the OIFE AGM, you need to register for BOTH events separately. Time OIFE AGM: June 15th 14.30 – June…
The OIFE Youth event will take place between 23rd to 27th, October 2019 in Bilbao, Spain. The goals of the OIFE Youth Event are: – sharing experience & ideas across borders – networking and getting to know young people with OI in other countries – social activities and fun – to create awareness about OIFE…
HAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED TREATMENT FOR YOUR OI? Then OIFE & EURORDIS is interested in hearing from you. Take 10 minutes to complete the new #RareBarometer survey on your experience of rare disease treatments and share your views. Survey available here in 23 languages: http://bit.ly/eurordis-survey NOTE! New this time is that you don’t have to…
One of OIFE’s goals is to represent our members on an international level and be the voice of people with OI and their families. One of our representatives is Rebecca T. Skarberg. She is the voice of people with OI in the European Reference Network for Rare Bone Disorders (ERN-BOND), who had their annual technical…
OIFE had several representatives in Brussels this week. Our Honorary Member Taco van Welzenis attended the 3rd EURORDIS Multi-Stakeholder Symposium on Improving Patients’ Access to Rare Disease Therapies: https://www.eurordis.org/3rd-access-symposium During the conference there were also opportunities to network. Here with representatives from Open App, Bindeweefsel.Be and Mereo. You can see a recording of the whole…
