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ESCRS calls for more multinational trials, pledges funding
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LISBON, Portugal — The European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons will promote the undertaking of multinational European clinical studies by providing funds for research at an international group of clinical centers, an organization official announced
Jose Cunha-Vaz, MD, past president of the ESCRS, outlined progress in this effort at this year’s annual ESCRS meeting.
“We need to have more joint projects within the European Union,” he said.
Currently, a conglomerate of 15 clinical sites in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom have agreed to share information about ongoing clinical trials, all of which will be funded by the ESCRS, he said. Trials will be concentrated in four major clinical research areas: optics, surgical healing and inflammation, imaging and biomaterials, tissue engineering and drug delivery.
The goal of the joint undertaking, he said, is to “create an active area of research” in the European Union.