Rare Diseases Symposium: Cross-border research in rare diseases

European cooperation is of great importance in tackling rare diseases. Conducting joint research offers opportunities for care improvement for patients with a rare disease. Cross-border research was the central topic of the annual Rare Diseases Symposium on November 6th in the LUMC

During the symposium, both internal and external attendees were given an update on international developments within the field of rare diseases. Prof. Alberto Pereira gave an introduction on research within the European Reference Networks (ERNs) and the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD). The EJP RD actions are organized [...]

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Rare endocrine diseases Padova meeting

On June 7th 2019, in the old Venetian villa Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta owing to the Venetian Region Counsil, the Endocrinology Unit of Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova (director Carla Scaroni, MD ) organized for Endo ERN group of Padova a meeting dedicated to medical doctors involved in child- and adult-hood endocrine rare diseases.

The aim of the meeting was to ameliorate the network among different care centers in our territory to uniform the standards of diagnosis and therapy for rare disease patients.

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