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Do not miss next ERICA workshop focused on drug repurposing in rare diseases!
2023-06-28
Participants can join the 7th of July meeting in person or online.
The European Rare dIsease research Coordination and support Action (ERICA)’s team working on Translation and Innovation has organized a workshop focused on drug repurposing in rare diseases.
The event is part of the ERICA 3rd General Assembly programme that will be held 6-7 July in Madrid.
The WP5 Innovation workshop on drug repurposing in rare diseases’ content will be focused on the following points:
- Showcase success stories from two different ERNs as an inspiration for the community: Eduard J van Beers (University Medical Center Utrecht) from ERN-EuroBloodNet will give a talk about mitapivat story and building relations with the biomedical industry into investigator-initiated research programmes, and Nicola Specchio from ERN-EpiCare will talk about drug repurposing in epilepsy.
- Donald Lo from EATRIS (REMEDI4ALL project) will lead an interactive session on pathways in drug repurposing.