newcastle university (on behalf of conect4children)
Newcastle upon Tyne
c4c (conect4children) is a large collaborative European network that aims to
facilitate the development of new drugs and other therapies for the entire
paediatric population. It is a pioneering opportunity to build capacity for the
implementation of multinational paediatric clinical trials whilst ensuring the
needs of babies, children, young people and their families are met. c4c is
committed to meeting the needs of paediatric patients thanks to a novel
collaboration between the academic and the private sectors, which includes 35
academic and 10 industry partners and around 500 affiliated partners. c4c
endeavours to provide a sustainable, integrated platform for the efficient and
swift delivery of high quality clinical trials in children and young people
across all conditions and phases of the drug development process. c4c strives to
bring innovative processes to all stages of clinical development by generating a
new model of organization and of the clinical development process. By
emphasizing inclusiveness and collaboration across geographical, specialty,
sectoral, cultural and societal backgrounds, it will set up a new infrastructure
to support all evaluations of medicines in children. In this manner, it will
become a benchmark in the currently fragmented European clinical research
environment. Best practices and up-to-date expert advice will inform the c4c
approaches and methods, which will subsequently be refined in the context of
viability trials.
