December 15th OIFE was represented at a webinar organized by the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) together with several OI professionals. The webinar was about their new call focused on “Natural History Studies addressing unmet needs in Rare Diseases”. If you know about researchers who would be interested in collaborating on an…
By Dace Liepina, former OIFE Vice President The iCAN (International Children’s Advisory Network) Summit 2022 took place in Lyon, France. It was an event for young people aged 12 to 19 from all around world to meet, exchange ideas and learn more about rare diseases and children’s rights, health and data protection. Many of the…
The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) brings over 130 institutions (including all 24 ERNs) from 35 countries. On March 3rd Dace Liepina and Ingunn Westeheim was supposed to represent OIFE at a networking event in Paris related to the Rare Diseases Research (RDR) Challenges Call. We were particularly interested in challenge nr. 3 “Characterize Rare…
The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) has made a preliminary announcement about the upcoming 2020 call for proposals for pre-clinical research to develop effective therapies for rare diseases like OI. A number of national and regional funding organisations will participate in the call, alongside the European Commission and the EJP-COFUND action, to…
OIFE’s honorary member Taco van Welzenis recently attended the International Summer School on Rare Disease Registries and FAIRification of Data in Rome, Italy from Sep. 23rd – 27th 2019. It was a part of a series of training activities proposed by the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD). You can download the agenda…
