Abstract
Development of age appropriate medicines for children is one of the major challenge of our century. Historically, research of new paediatric drugs has been neglected due to poor industrial interest and limited public and private investments. The ID-EPTRI project is aimed to bridge the existing gaps in the paediatric medicine that stop the progress, from the early stage drug development phases to be translated into paediatric use of medicines, through a new paediatric Research Infrastructure. To reach this goal, EPTRI has developed and disseminated a survey in order to identify the gaps and map the competences of the excellence of the paediatric research in pan-European countries that will be the potential service providers of the new Research Infrastructure. EPTRI will network all the available competences and technologies useful to the paediatric research, creating an open science space allowing top-level researchers to work together.
Highlights
SUMMARYDevelopment of age appropriate medicines for children is one of the major challenges of our century
Most of the drugs derived by the advancements of the life sciences have been discovered and developed with adult patients in mind
The project ID-EPTRI aims to design the framework of the new Research Infrastructure (RI), by preparing the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) of the future RI, to promote and lead the paediatric–related medicines, expediting the creation/use of innovative technologies for better and safer drugs for children from drug discovery and early development phases to the formulation
Summary
Development of age appropriate medicines for children is one of the major challenges of our century. Research of new paediatric drugs has been neglected due to poor industrial interest and limited public and private investments. The ID-EPTRI project is aimed to bridge the existing gaps in paediatric medicine that stop the progress from early stage drug development phases to be translated into paediatric use of medicines, through a new paediatric Research Infrastructure. To reach this goal, EPTRI has developed and disseminated a survey in order to identify the gaps and map the competences of the excellence of the paediatric research in pan-European countries that will be the potential service providers of the new Research Infrastructure. EPTRI will network all the available competences and technologies useful to the paediatric research, creating an open science space allowing top-level researchers to work together
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