A national network of sites that shares on organisation and a quality approach of excellence. A network that leans on children and family engagement.
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Medical expertise: Applies for premature to adolescent age groups and all pediatric disciplines, including but not limited to the following: neonatology - developmental origins of health status, gastroenterology - nutrition, infectious and inflammatory diseases, pneumology and rare diseases. Scientific expertise: methodology, pharmacology, modeling and epidemiology adapted to studies in children. A national network of CIC pediatric experts spread across the country. Privileged links with additional European experts. |
For sponsors
The PEDSTART network also offers services for the pharmaceutical industry and academic sponsors in France and internationally.
- Establishment of clinical trials under optimized and harmonized conditions:
- « Proof of concept » studies – early phase trials.
- Evaluation of new medicines.
- New uses for existing medicines.
- Strategic therapeutic trials.
- Implementation of pharmaco-epidemiological studies.
- Promote the establishment of biobanks and registries.
- Facilitate the recruitment of patients in clinical trials and pharmaco-epidemiological studies.
For investigators
Facilitator of research in all disciplines of pediatrics, including rare diseases. PEDSTART network can be involved in all phases of a research project starting at the conception of the protocol:
- Scientific expertise.
- Methodology consultation.
- Study feasibility within the network.
- Administrative and technical or regulatory support (budget, regulatory procedures).
- Optimise site set-up.
- Optimise recruitment and monitoring of inclusions.
- Help in formatting European projects.
