LEAKED DRAFT OFFERS PROMISES OF NEW SUPPORT FOR EUROPEAN CLINICAL TRIALS

ABSTRACT

A leaked draft of the health plans under consideration for the next stage of the European Union's Horizon research program gives some insight into what is likely to result later in the year in a formal invitation for proposals. Successful proposals are likely to be able to demonstrate the ability to sustain multi-country adaptive platform trials with adequate trial implementation capacity, laboratory analysis capacity, and a harmonized approach to the collection, storage, sharing, and analysis of data. Proposals should consider the coordination of adaptive platform trials addressing diverse trial target populations (such as primary care or hospitalized patients) as well as different possible medical countermeasures (including therapeutics and vaccines), within or across networks, which could include performance study plans for diagnostics, says the leaked draft.