The ERN-RND Annual Meeting will take place in Tuebingen, Germany from 29 September – 01 October 2022. It will be an online event, and we invite one representative per partner to join in-person.
Preliminary agenda:
SEPTEMBER 29th – Day 1
Time
Topic
14:00 – 14:30
Welcome coffee, registration
14:30 – 18:00
Scientific symposium
N-of-1 Treatments and trials in neurology
SEPTEMBER 30th – Day 2
Time
Topic
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome, agenda, housekeeping
EU Login
09:15 – 09:50
ERNs - EUROPEAN COMMISSION Perspective
Why are ERNs important for Europe?
Main recent development and challenges for ERNs
The patients’ expectations
“The NEW ERN-RND”: setting the scene
Coffee break
10:10 – 12:30
Achievements in the first five years
Network and ERN-RND registry, NGS EQA, Webinars and Postgraduate curriculum, Patient Journeys, CPMS, Transition, Disease Groups
Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30
DG Ataxia and HSP
DG Frontotemporal Dementia
14:30 – 15:10
Enlargement of ERN-RND
15:10 – 16:40
DG Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes
DG Choreas and Huntington’s Diseases
16:40 – 17:30
Future and strategically important topics
ERICA, RD Partnership, European Health Data Space, New CPMS, Key performance indicators
17:30 – 17:45
CPMS registration
Dinner inWaldhäuser Hof
OCTOBER 1st – Day 3
Time
Topic
08:30 – 10:00
WG Neurohabilitation
WG Pediatric Issues
Coffee break
10:20 – 11:50
DG Dystonias, Paroxysmal Disorders and NBIA
DG Leukodystrophies
11:50 – 12:50
Plan ERN-RND for the next five years
Musts, keys, work programme, new governing structure
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Board Meeting
Please register using the link below by 15 June, 2022.
In the context of the Ukrainian crisis, as ERNs we need to know how many patients with rare diseases get care outside Ukraine. As more coordination should be soon coming it would be really important to know if initiatives are helping or not.
Upcoming joint webinars by ERN-RND, EURO-NMD, EAN:
21.06.2022 | ‘Biofluid biomarkers in atypical parkinsonism'​ by Per Svenningsson, Karolinska Institute, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden. SIGN UP here
24.06.2022 | ‘Caring HD: the experience of the French National Reference Centre’​ by Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi & Katia Youssov, University Hospital Henri-Mondor, Paris, France. Sign up here.
28.06.2022 | ‘Magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnostic assessment of cerebellar ataxias’ by Jennifer Faber, German Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders, Bonn, Germany. SIGN UP here
12.07.2022 | ‘Importance of autopsies in leukodystrophies’​ by Marianna Bugiani, Amsterdam University Medical Center, the Netherlands. SIGN UP here
If you missed our information & training sessions on CPMS and Case Discussions in ERN-RND so far, you might be delighted that we offer more sessions soon:
Register for a session now by following the respective link above.
While we encourage especially CPMS contact persons and ERN-RND new members to join, all clinicians from ERN-RND member hospitals are welcome.
Furthermore, the European Commission will offer a training on the basic use of the CPMS tool to all new CPMS users on 21-06-2022, 14.00 - 15:30.
Invitations via Email will be sent to all users that have signed up for CPMS as of this year.
You do not have a CPMS account yet? Check our website to find out more about how to use CPMS on our website.
Online case discussions jour fix
The regular Online Case Discussions are open to all clinicians from the ERN-RND network.
For all appointments, case submission is still possible and all cases (unsolved and solved/disease management) are welcome. You would like to contribute with a case to the discussion? Please contact us ASAP!
You would like to offer your advice for unsolved and complex cases? Complete this short survey to receive invitations according to your expertise.
ERN-RND Short Exchange Programme: call for applications!
Healthcare professionals (clinicians, nurses, physiotherapists, etc.)affiliated to ERN institutions (Full Members or Affiliated Partners) can receive organizational and financial support for secondments with clinical focus lasting up to six weeks in ERN expert centres other than their home institution, supporting the sharing of knowledge and stimulating collaboration.
More information about the programme can be found on our website!
The 5th call for ERN Research Mobility Fellowships within the EJP RD is open. It aims to provide funding for PhD students, Postdocs and medical doctors in training to undertake scientific visits fostering specialist research outside their countries of residence. Deadline for submission of applications is: 13. June 2022. For more information visit: https://www.ejprarediseases.org/ern-research-mobility-fellowship/
EJP RD funded ERN-Workshop‚ „Modelling & Simulation: Research Methodologies for Small Populations in Rare Diseases“, 4-5. July 2022, Bari, Italy
Target audience: PhD students, post-doc researchers, senior scientists, young clinicians, investigators and academics affiliated to the ERNs, or willing to enter in the rare disease networks, expert in (or interested in learning more about) data science and machine learning techniques as applied to computational biology, toxicology profiling and PK/PD modelling in small populations."
Learning objectives:
- Learn the application of web platforms for in-silico assessment of toxicity and learn the utility of a machine learning approach for the prediction of developmental toxicity of chemicals.
- Learn what is needed for translational preclinical studies.
- Learn the utility of PK/PD modelling and simulation in drug development for small populations.
For more information and to register, please visit:
All the ERICA beneficiaries, ERN representatives, Expert Group members, Advisors and partners will gather to this face-to-face symposium to discuss the progress and future of the ERN related Research activities and to participate in the WP-Specific Expert Working Group sessions.
The Ataxia Global Initiative (AGI) Conference will be held at Renaissance Dallas Addison Hotel in Dallas, Texas, USA on November 4-5, 2022, directly following the International Congress for Ataxia Research (ICAR). It brings together academia, industry as well as patient advocacy organisations and will focus on trial-readiness for ataxias.
The European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD) would kindly like to invite professionals across Europe to participate in the RehaTech4Child Survey! The aim of the RehaTech4Child survey is to identify the digital technologies (e.g., robotic devices and treadmill systems, virtual reality and gaming systems, telehealth) that are used in clinical practices throughout Europe, and to know more about how rehabilitation professionals use or not use digital technologies in motor rehabilitation practices within the paediatric population. This knowledge would eventually help in designing the future technological developments based on the feedback from rehabilitation professionals. To identify today what is needed to create a better tomorrow for people with a childhood-onset disability and their families.
Once we are made aware of a new publication to which an ERN-RND member has contributed, we post the link to it in the news section of the ERN-RND website here. You can alsoemail us directlyto let us know that you have recently published a research article.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Please use one of the sentences below to acknowledge ERN-RND in all publications/presentations/clinical trials etc. (this document can also be found on the Collaborative Platform).
